[kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again

Fri Mar 1 17:11:10 EAT 2013

In almost any system I have deployed in my developer life, there has been a
transition between old system (manual usually) and the new system being
deployed. I would like to imagine, IEBC will retain a manual system that
will be used in the event there is failure. Therefore, we shouldn't really
have a problem even if the system failed..only delays would be experienced
really. Do I eve sound practical on this? J 

Kind Regards, 

Bernard Kioko
Chief Executive Officer

Bernsoft Interactive Limited

P.O.Box 15177-00100 Nbi,Kenya

Office:   +254-703-080-080

Mobile: +254-722-540-883

From: kictanet
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+bkioko=bernsoft.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf
Of Mark Mwangi
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:34 PM
To: bkioko at bernsoft.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again

I also wondered hat was meant by visualising  What exactly is being
visualised if the results are correctly received  Also why is IEBC buying
hardware now? This thing was not tested for all those months? Wouldn't
running it from a cloud instance be better and cheaper for all concerned(ok
maybe not for whomever is selling the new new server.)

And why is there no technical language being used? No talk of latency, page
load, database response etc. just vague terms like no visualisation. 

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:04 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

Hi,

The information to be visualized is minimal as what is being received is
only summaries from the polling stations and not each voters results which
would mean that the data could be visualized quite comfortably with a
spreadsheet on a 486 or lower processor so when they say that it was
underpowered on what platform where they running the application, a Huawei
ID10T "smart phone".

This is a clear indication that all we remain is a silicon savanna where
there is a scarcity of trees from which one can climb to get a vantage point
into the future.

(A savanna, or savannah, is a grassland
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassland>  ecosystem
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem>  characterized by the trees being
sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_%28forest%29>  does not close. The open
canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to support an unbroken
herbaceous <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous>  layer consisting
primarily of grasses.[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-1>
[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-2> [3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-WernerIntro-3>  Some
classification systems[which?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words> ] also recognize
a grassland savanna from which trees are absent.[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-4>  This article deals only
with savanna under the common definition of a grassy woodland with a
significant woody plant component)

Regards

Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225 <tel:%2B254722511225> , +254202010696
<tel:%2B254202010696> 

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From: Gabe Sailepo <gabe at kentelcom.com>
To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Cc: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> 
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013, 0:15
Subject: RE: [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again

We are living in the day and age of Hardware Abstraction, Multi-core CPU,
Hypervisors and Virtualization of physical resources.

The statement "Server was under powered" does not inspire a lot of
confidence in our nascent IT Industry.

In my opinion, the physical hardware should no longer a limitation once you
virtualize the Compute, Network and Storage Nodes?

Did the engineers do any stress-tests and capacity planning? Did they even
scale the System?

It would be ironic and tragic if the Kenyan Elections failed due to some
ID10T errors considering that Kenya is the African Silicon Savannah.

"Never was so much owed by so many to so few" stolen from Churchill.

Gabe Shompole

From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+gabe.shompole
<mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Bgabe.shompole>
=kentelcom.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:59 AM
To: Gabe Shompole
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again

Hi,

I am shocked that none of the people of this list felt it necessary to the
bring the following issues to light yet it could be a major issue if not
resolved immeidate

"Sunday when we had the transmission of results, there was something that
didn't work. We used a server of a lesser power than the one we thought we
should use. We confirmed that all results were relayed to the server but it
could not do visualisation," Mr Oswago said.

http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/System-to-relay-poll-tally-queried-/-/163
1868/1704724/-/5pbyj5z/-/index.html

Shall we keep behaving like pathologists whose clients have no opportunity
for a second opinion?

Regards

Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya

Tel: +254722511225 <tel:%2B254722511225> , +254202010696
<tel:%2B254202010696> 

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