[kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?

[Agosta Liko]

Erik

There is helping then there is show business.

As I said, we all know people in IEBC, if we needed information or to help
... a call or sms does the trick

Unless someone actually contacted IEBC with an offer to help. Even and email



On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com> wrote:

> Agosta,
>
> I think it's clear that we all understand that tech issues happen, on this
> list we understand that better than most.  However, how are you supposed to
> help if you don't know what's wrong?
>
> That's really what's at issue here.  It's about understanding how it works
> first, then who's involved, then what's wrong, then what (if anything) we
> can do.  Do you find something wrong in that train of thought?
>
> Erik Hersman
>
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> On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Daudi
>
> My point is when people work on complex systems ... like the election
> system, things fail and most times they recover.
>
> Lets not have a public hazing exercise -- Unless we say we know for a fact
> what the problem is
>
> and in that case, first step would be to offer help to IEBC - or the staff
> there. We know them !!
>
> There are too many of us who are now offering solutions on blogs, websites
> etc etc
>
> Maybe this will bring in more grants .....
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Daudi Were <daudi.were at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 March 2013 09:56, Agosta Liko <agostal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> about the RFP ...
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>
>>> THIS REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) IS THE EXCLUSIVE, CONFIDENTIAL,
>>> PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
>>> (IFES). IT MAY NOT BE COPIED, TRANSMITTED, OR DISCLOSED BY ANY MEANS
>>> WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF IFES . BY ACCEPTING A COPY HEREOF,
>>> RECIPIENT AGREES TO (I) BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED
>>> HEREIN (INCLUDING BUT NO T LIMITED TO THE CONFIDENTIALITY PROVISONS), (II)
>>> USE THE RFP (AND ANY RELATED DOCUMENTS) SOLE LY FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES AND
>>> FOR RESPONDING TO THIS RFP, AND (III) RETURN OR DESTROY THE RFP (AND ANY
>>> RELATED DOCUMENTS) UPON IFES REQUEST OR UPON YOUR DECISION NOT TO RESPOND
>>> TO THIS RFP
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Liko,
>>
>> The RFP maybe belong to IFES (and that can be disputed), the election and
>> the electoral process belongs to Kenyans.
>> We not only have the right, we have the RESPONSIBILITY to question what
>> is going on with the ICT systems at Bomas.
>> Since you keep telling us to expect things to fail and then expect them
>> to be fixed why don't you tell us WHAT failed and WHAT is being fixed.
>> Simple enough. If you don't want to tell us what is failing and what is
>> being fixed then tell us WHY you can not tell us. Is it that you don't
>> know, in which case you should join is trying to find out WHAT is going on.
>>
>> The integrity of our election is much more important that a warning IN
>> CAPS about which obscure company owns which document.
>>
>> We ask these questions are patriots, as concerned citizens who want our
>> electoral commission to succeed. Obscure confidentially clauses or not.
>>
>> D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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