[kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?

Fri Mar 8 00:54:44 EAT 2013

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your good wishes:

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:58 PM, <ericosiakwan at me.com> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> Whiles this post-motem is relevant, i think the timing is out of sync. In
> my view the most relevant "to do" now is "how do we get the RESULTS out
> PEACEFULLY and below is what i suggest members of this list consider;
>
> 1. Lets calm tempers and do our best to reduce the tension,
>

This has been the spirit before, during and after the voting

> 2. Lets find ways of helping the IEBC to deliver on it's mandate of
> collating and declaring the results,
>

The IEBC has the task well at hand and are handling the tallying and
reporting of official/final results very well. The RTS system was merely a
way of rapidly displaying provisional results.

> 3. Let all parties be ready to accept the results and if they are not
> satisfied, approach the law courts instead of the media and streets.
>

We are all praying for this. So far, all interested parties have
contracted/committed to a code of conduct

>
> Unfortunately, distance wont allow me to help in this exercise but i trust
> it can be done, peacefully. Then we can do the post-motem properly.
>
> Eric here
>
>
> On 7 Mar 2013, at 18:31, ICT Researcher <ict.researcher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Time to mutually agree that those whom voted electronically continue
> indulging in ICT nitpicking while those whom voted manually concentrate on
> manual results announced by electoral authority?
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
> *To:* ict.researcher at yahoo.com
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:01 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?
>
> @Edith,
>
> Safaricom cannot explain anything to do with IEBC Servers and laptops and
> even the Nokia phones IEBC used! I'll try to elaborate slightly:
>
> 1. Safaricom gives connectivity, much like a highway to drive on at a
> certain maximum speed. They ensured that IEBC got this and I must emphasize
> I was a witness to this, having sat with Bob Collymore and other
> Safaricom's top
>     Manager at the Safaricom Network Monitoring Centre (NMC) from 6.30pm
> on Monday to about 8am on Tuesday. During this time, myself and other
> representatives of political parties and representative from IEBC had
> unfettered
>     access to the NMC and the Engineers on duty to ensure there were no
> issues affecting the "highway". I don't remember seeing any failures on the
> highway, and besides there was enough redundancy in place to mitigate that.
>
> 2. Safaricom DID NOT have access to IEBC servers - which form the
> "backend" of the transmission system. Neither did Safaricom have access to
> the mobile phones that were used as "frontend". These two were communicating
>     via a VPN. The encryption within this VPN was IEBCs business. IEBC was
> responsible for configuring the frontend-backend communication. When IEBCs
> Server disk filled up (ran out of space) it was IEBCs business to fix, not
>     Safaricoms. I remember when results stopped trickling in, I did raise
> the question and CORD's representative at the NMC went to Bomas, where he
> got the information that there had been issues with HDD storage. I also
> recall
>     Safaricom's Nzioka Waita rushing to Bomas to get to establish what the
> real problem was. Of course it was beyond his mandate to manage IEBC's
> Server.
>
> This whole s*^t is IEBCs to answer for, NOT Safaricom. Look at the failure
> as being on the "Submission System" (frontend-backend) and not on the
> highway.
>
> I am not speaking on behalf of Safaricom, but as one person who has first
> hand information from Safaricom's NMC while representing a political
> coalition's interests. Oh, and Jubilee Coalition did not send a
> representative. I also don't recall seeing someone representing Amani
> coalition, but they all had invitation to attend.
>
>
>
>
> On 6 March 2013 20:10, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca> wrote:
>
>  Despite Safaricom’s press release, they were involved in transmitting
> the results. Can they explain why the transmission via their VPN failed?**
> **
> ** **
> Edith****
> ** **
>  *From:* kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eadera=
> idrc.ca at lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *Erik Hersman
> *Sent:* March 6, 2013 3:02 PM
>
> *To:* Edith Adera
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?****
>  ** **
> Does anyone on the list have the contact information for Dismas Ongondi at
> IEBC?****
>  *Dismas Ongondi - Director of Information Communication Technology*****
>  As head of the ICT department, he has been in charge of the
> technological revolution at the commission. The implementation of the an
> electronic results transmission technology and biometric voter registration
> has been under his docket. He is the man Kenyans will be focusing on
> tomorrow when Presidential results are relayed electronically. ****
>   Erik Hersman****
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>    On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com> wrote:*
> ***
>
>
> ****
> I would be curious to know when the selected vendor actually indeed
> receive their contract for the work to begin. My experience with public
> procurement (GoK, USAID, etc), once the bids are closed, it will usually
> take more than 30 days to get everything finalized internal to the buying
> organisation for a contract to be issued and hence works to begin.****
>  ** **
>  Considering this was a software project for custom tool and several
> integration requirements with several third party applications. The
> problems were are seeing are really a manifestation of how the preparedness
> process went.****
>  ** **
>  ** **
>  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. **
> **
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>  D****
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