[kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?

Thu Mar 7 01:40:42 EAT 2013

Bwana Ndemo

The first article that Muthoni shared which exposed the failure of the system at demo stage asked very fundamental questions. Those questions must be answered as we try to unearth what happened.

in this day and age of cloud computing, why would you be talking of a server unable to cope? It seems hacking the system was not difficult from the layers described by Erik and managed by 4-5 different companies not under one management structure.

Finally, as an industry, we should have had more interest in interogating and auditing this system. 

Edith
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Daktari, we are not talking abt the human errors of the voting process. That was manual. Rather we are interested and reviewing what happened to the IT part of the exercise! The transmission of the results did not simply fail from overload or any technical hiccup. What exactly transpired that isaack is only referring to euphemistically as "technical challenges"?

Am sure you know that the system did not just malfunction but suffered frm manipulation. I stand to be correcyted but Can a system trigger itself to generate results and alter its data transmission  logs? Lets just say all of us are being patriotic and acting in the national interest at this time but sm1 should not think we are fooled. The truth will sooner than later become apparent.

But i truly appreciate your contribution.
- Makali

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David,
A lot has been said in the social media trying to advance different theories of. Why the systems failed  but what will matter are the final vote count. These were just provisional results that were to be verified before announcing the winner and were to be transmitted within a given time.  Electronic results were to be like exit polls.  There were human errors that should not have happened.  Look at the number of spoilt votes.  Can we say it was sabotage?

Ndemo.

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Why is this being addressed as IT "failure" and not "sabotage"?. I would think failure is when a system "fails" to function according to its intended or programmed purpose and not when its "functioning" is interfered with so as to derail it from performing the set task.

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