[kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?

[Warigia Bowman]

Complete agreement with Mark. Please see

http://www.ljean.com/files/ABPractices.pdf

L. Jean Camp, Allan Friedman, & Warigia Bowman. "Electronic
Voting<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1065226.1065282>

Best Practices" Summary and Report of the Voting, Vote Capture & Vote
Counting Symposium <http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1065226.1065282>,
June 2-4, 2004 (Cambridge, MA).



On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Mark Mwangi <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:

> The way I understand the electronic system is that it was only meant to be
> a public facing results platform that would give a general feel of the
> winners and loosers before the official figures were declared.
>
> The failure of the system thus does not affect the integrity of the
> elections but only the PR skills of IEBC. The official results are still on
> form 16a i presume.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com> wrote:
>
>> Valid question Edith.  The short answer is that only the people in Bomas
>> can answer that question.  I'm looking forward to when they talk about it
>> as well.
>>
>>  Erik Hersman
>>
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>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Erik,
>>
>> Key question, were these companies working in sync or providing services
>> independently without a lead ensurin tgat everything works.
>>
>> The demo seems to have failed as per article circulated by Muthoni, why
>> were these not addresed as the same problems were experienced during
>> the`live show`.
>>
>> Hard to understand.
>>
>> Why not use one integrated system?
>>
>>
>>
>> ____________________________________
>> From: kictanet [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.ca at lists.kictanet.or.ke] on
>> behalf of Erik Hersman [erik at zungu.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:52 AM
>> To: Edith Adera
>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?
>>
>> Agreed with Evans here.
>>
>> Every single tech system has problems, that IEBC does as well should be
>> no surprise.  I've been spending last night and this morning trying to
>> better understand how the IEBC's data flow works, their lack of clarity
>> here is the only problem that I can find.  You can see my questions,
>> sources and even the IEBC RFP for the system here:
>> http://iebctechkenya.tumblr.com/
>>
>>  *   Polling station uses Safaricom SIM cards »
>>  *   App installed in phone, proprietary software from IFES »
>>  *   Transmitted via Safaricom’s VPN »
>>  *   Servers hosted/managed by Next  Technologies (needs confirmation) »
>>  *   Google hosted website at http://vote.iebc.or.ke »
>>  *   Google hosted API at http://api.iebc.or.ke
>>
>> You'll note that, besides the IEBC itself, there are at least 4 (large)
>> organizations that have to be in sync in order for the system to work
>> (Safaricom, IFES, Next Technologies, and Google).  That's no small task,
>> and as you can see by the list of companies involved, these are largely not
>> local companies.
>>
>>
>> Erik Hersman
>>
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>> http://www.ihub.co.ke/>
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>>
>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 9:42 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans at gmail.com<
>> mailto:ikua.evans at gmail.com <ikua.evans at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> Edith, I beg to differ. Its not ICT that has failed here. Its the
>> processes. Just throwing some expensive servers and plenty of bandwidth at
>> a problem will not solve it. The top leadership has to fully understand
>> their organization's ICT strategy. They have to internalize the
>> opportunities that technology brings to the table, as well as the inherent
>> risks that come with it. This cannot be left to techies, however good they
>> may be. The reason being that if the organization that you lead fails (and
>> the reason was technology), its you who is answerable, not the techies.
>> This is the spirit of IT Governance.
>>
>> It would be interesting to know if the IEBC commissioners fully
>> understand the risks of the technologies that they are relying on.
>> Let us not blame the technology.
>>
>> Evans
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca<
>> mailto:eadera at idrc.ca <eadera at idrc.ca>>> wrote:
>> Listers,
>>
>> It is a shame that for the first time in Kenya's history when IT is given
>> a chance to bring credibility and efficiency in the electoral process, ICT
>> has failed SPECTACULARLY!
>>
>> what went wrong?
>>
>> Edith
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> sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
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Dr. Warigia Bowman
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Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
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