[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 70, Issue 94

Mon Mar 11 22:06:37 EAT 2013

Hi Areba,

M-Kurt good idea but we will know who voted for whom as there is a digital signature, it is important that it one person right to maintain their privacy, therefore M-Kurt will not be a viable option, there will be polling stations, that will have some kind of booths, electronic ballot papers and a way to confirm you have been to the polling station to vote. The biometric technology deployed was to ensure one person votes and also there are few approaches in profiling the individual, here the civil biometric specification is used, the criminal biometric registers hold a lot more data and and require some heavy processing.

The approach on the biometrics was ill implemented as there is not a proper central register, let's ask the IEBC to confirm this, as if there was then you can cast your vote at any polling station within your local area and not only the polling station, here I mean by I am able to cast my vote for Westlands at any of the 4/5 polling stations, this can evenly distribute the crowds, by telling and individual the length of a queue and where the shortest waiting times are, we can be cute in providing this type of Information... Hey the country came to a halt for many days.

Coming to the transmission technology, it was not tested and hardened and settled as a technology. Again, when we spoke to IFES we were told that they were being held up by the IEBC.

Coming to the national plundering of funds, that only the Financial Reporting Centre team can pin point who is bring in large sums of cash from large companies and take them to task on Antimoney  laundering regulation combined with the financial and foreign currency bureaus, we will leave them to do their jobs professionally. 

Finally, we have also set a precedence that this plundering is allowed in the spirit of public interest, this only happens in Africa and the rest of the world. It is very interesting all claim not to participate in the corrupt practices, in some part of the world they have a set rule of 7% - 8%, here we have what can we get away or the best offer on the table, and result is failed IT system that require a bit more planning and care in implementation, but these guys have had their bonuses and do they care, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. 

The great thing to see it has been a peaceful elections, and that is a great start to the next 50 years.....

Thanks

Best Regards,
Baiju

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>   1. Re: how positive can foreign media be? (Warigia Bowman)
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>   3. Re: Role of the Media in Kenyan Elections (Victor bwire)
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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:18:01 -0500
> From: Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
> To: Evans Ikua <ikua.evans at gmail.com>
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> Personally, I am feeling very angry at the foreign media. Thanks Evans for
> this shocking ridiculousness. we need to expose them!
> 
> I wrote this yesterday.
> 
> http://digitaldemocracykenya.blogspot.com/2013/03/feeling-frustrated-with-change-in-press.html
> 
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Wow, this is a gem from Time:
>> 
>> 
>> "At this election, with a new 2010 constitution, and a new electoral body
>> with a new ? though not glitch-free ? electronic voting system, Kenyans?
>> determination to hold a peaceful election has been palpable. *The popular
>> mood has also been notably anti-Western. Foreign diplomats have been
>> warned of blood-curdling revenge should they interfere in the poll*. *Foreign
>> journalists have been publicly ridiculed and denounced as prejudiced if
>> they predicted chaos and disaster.* And a central message of most
>> candidates? campaigns was strident, patriotic self-determination."
>> 
>> Read more:
>> http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyattas-victory-means-for-africa/#ixzz2NE3fBw4v
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> Kind Regards,
>> Evans Ikua,*
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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:43:32 +0300
> From: Areba Collins [ @BrainiacKE ? ]  <arebacollins at gmail.com>
> To: bitange at jambo.co.ke
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> Someone once said, "We view things not as they are, but as we are." I
> forget who. I sadly conclude that even in the most intelligent of debates,
> sides will show that are not too different from the not too intelligent
> debates(With all due respect to the list). If you ask me, This thing called
> tribe should be embraced as a critical aspect of our identity, and
> channeled as the smallest (or second smallest) political unit. .. <end of
> digression>
> 
> The tech hitches on this election were indeed embarassing, but only to
> those that have an unrealistic expectation of project implementation. The
> kind that buys the sales pitch that nine women can give birth to a baby in
> a month and start crying foul in month two. If you ask me, we did a lot of
> things right, even in the deployment of the system that many have
> villified. From the little feedback i have seen around, @erick hersman has
> attempted to explain the genesis, and his blog presents a good start for a
> forensic audit of what happened.
> 
> The RIGHT THING to do should not be throw the baby out with the bath water,
> but continously improve upon it. Time and Time again I have always asked,
> If we can entrust billions of Transactions via sms , what stops us from
> M-Kura ? Why would we need to queue in lines if we can all vote
> simultaneously from our homes on the same technology that people entrust
> their life savings on? Moving forward I believe we should be talking
> digital identity off-site voting.
> 
> and last but not least, The Media might help us by getting professionals to
> ask the right questions, otherwise its a blanket condemnation of a system
> that failed not because of inherent design flaws, but on how the Operating
> system was installed and specifically how much space partitions were
> allocated.
> 
> my 50 bob.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:07 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
> 
>> Edith,
>> Answers to your questions lie in the Communications Amendment Act 2009 and
>> the Media Act 2007.  The two legal instruments were meant to streamline
>> the Broadcast sector in this country and enable self-regulation of Media,
>> diversity of opinion and a pluralist broadcast regime.  Nowhere in these
>> legislations that you find government curtailing freedom of speech.  Many
>> people including David were opposed to the implementation of these laws.
>> The subsidiary legislation supporting these laws were borrowed from The
>> UK's communications regulator as well as from the Federal Communications
>> Commission in the US word for word.
>> 
>> The problem therefore is not the government.  The problem is US (sisi).
>> Like you put it for Ghana we speak not with facts but opinion.  Rumour
>> spreads faster than anything in Africa simply because we do not have the
>> culture of verifying things.  There is nothing wrong in promoting peace if
>> everybody seeks to understand the balance between freedom (liberty) and
>> supression.  In Britain for example, News of The World was closed down by
>> the government.  Was this suppression of speech?  Every British citizens
>> understood that the News Corp had become irresiponsible.
>> 
>> For sure I know the Government wants to know (and I have been asked as to
>> what may have gone wrong) exactly what went wrong with the IEBC systems.
>> The Ghanaian and Nigerian ones too had problems.  If you recall, the
>> systems were procured at the last minute even when IEBC had expressed
>> desire to go manual due to lengthy procurement processes.  The
>> manufacturer hurriedly tried to meet the short deadlines.
>> 
>> Even in this forum we are making opinions as if they are facts.  It would
>> help if we have some analyst give us the facts upon which we can advance
>> our opinions.  If you watched the US elections carefully, they were more
>> into analytics and building trajectories that helped citizens understand.
>> Take for example four constituencies say, Kilome, Rarieda, Mathioya and
>> Konoin.  Knowing the trend in these constituencies, we could have very
>> easily built a trajectory for all neighbouring constituencies using
>> average turnout and registered voters.  This will give you better insight
>> to ask intelligent questions that will make great news than the way we
>> handle such issues to the extent media would think it is propaganda.
>> 
>> My point is that we had far too much data to make great stories that do
>> not point to violence or hate message.  No mews media that can dismiss a
>> good argument and especially when it is different fresh and logical.  In
>> essence convert data into information.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 
>> Ndemo.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Listers,
>>> 
>>> For the 2007 elections, Bwana Ndemo is on record here (KICTANET)
>>> condemning the role of the media in fueling the violence.
>>> 
>>> In 2013, the media played a different role. If you now reflect back -
>> deep
>>> and hard - it occurred to me that  the over-rated, over-hyped, over-done
>>> "call for peace" was actually a "tool of oppression"!!
>>> 
>>> Why do I say this? Many a Kenyans found themselves speechless and
>>> voiceless....you were not given a chance to speak your mind, to question,
>>> to freely air your opinions or liberally reflect on the going ons.  You
>>> were promptly slapped with the "peace call" which immediately silenced
>>> you! Why should I feel silenced by "a call for peace"? Our national
>> anthem
>>> talks of "peace and liberty", what happened to "liberty" during this
>>> period?
>>> 
>>> Most Kenyans locked themselves in their houses, scared stiff of the
>>> unknown. Reflecting back it was truly a "silence tool".
>>> 
>>> In my view, what is going on in Kenya is God's birth of a NEW KENYA. It
>> is
>>> NOT (and I repeat NOT) about THE WINNER or THE LOSERS (Do NOT get me
>> wrong
>>> - I don't mind about that). It is about laying a NEW FOUNDATION for Kenya
>>> that is built on TRUTH (RIGHTEOUSNESS) and JUSTICE, especially during
>> this
>>> Jubilee period (50 years of our existence as a nation as we enter into
>> the
>>> next 50 years - the next Jubilee).
>>> 
>>> From now on, and as our national anthem aptly states, JUSTICE will truly
>>> be our SHIELD and DEFENDER.
>>> 
>>> Sustainable peace (not FALSE PEACE) is built on the foundations of TRUTH
>>> (righteousness) and JUSTICE.
>>> 
>>> Reflective Edith
>>> 
>>> Quote: I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice
>>> (Albert Camus)
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> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:30:54 +0300
> From: Victor bwire <vicbwire at gmail.com>
> To: Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
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> Could anybody differentiate for me Kenyan journalists and Kenyan media? I
> am interested in knowing how many of us participated in such discussions
> during the tallying....,journalists had earlier reported the procurement
> flaws surrounding the election kits... Journalists reported when the mock
> results failed. What did Kenyans do when this was reported. Some of you
> experienced first hand the bvrs failing at the stations, what did you do.
> It's easier to blame the media or others for failures and very hard to
> accept our individual and collective participation to the  failure... This
> won't change the situation for we are all responsible for whatever might
> have happened.
> 
> On Monday, March 11, 2013, Warigia Bowman wrote:
> 
>> Asante Henry.
>> 
>> Thank you for these valuable insights. I personally saw two biometric kits
>> fail and two phones fail out of five stations. There should have been an
>> earlier procurement process and much more careful testing.
>> 
>> Warigia
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Henry Maina <henry at article19.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'henry at article19.org');>
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> The overall performance of the local media in the just ended elections
>>> cannot be made by whimsical and quirky inferences. However, it is possible
>>> using some anecdotal evidence to isolate some critical contours.
>>> 
>>> 1. The media suffered from self-censorship and over-depended on the feeds
>>> from IEBC without even questioning anything? No media house reported
>>> authoritarively on the high voter turn-out and how would raise the 50+1
>>> threshold. Given that most media houses had this information why did we
>>> have a story around this figure. This would not have amounted to announcing
>>> the results.... Further, the media never followed up on reported cases of
>>> some election officials issuing two or three ballots papers per position
>>> even after complaints were made in Nairobi, Kakamega and Uasin Gishu
>>> 
>>> 2. The media over for fear of being blamed for incitement censored even
>>> ground breaking leads on cases of malfunctoning IEBC
>>> 
>>> 3. The media cannot and should not go to bed with election managers for
>>> it to receive "recognition." l still await the big story pointing out how
>>> much money was gobbled up to purchase the pollbooks and voter verications
>>> kits and why they failed. This was a national scandal that was taken to be
>>> normal. In my village they di not work. We offered to help the team charge
>>> them and
>>> 
>>> 4. The police have been praised for helping to ensure peace. In most
>>> stations I visited Administration Police barred even candidates from
>>> getting into the stations and insisted that they can only get to about 40
>>> metres away. In fact one AP told the Presiding Officer that she was in
>>> charge and did not care what he felt. This clearly implied that officers
>>> were in charge of the polling process in some stations. I await a story
>>> about such officers. This is the only way to entrench democracy
>>> 
>>> HENRY O. MAINA
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: kictanet [kictanet-bounces+henry=article19.org at lists.kictanet.or.ke]
>>> on behalf of Edith Adera [eadera at idrc.ca]
>>> Sent: 11 March 2013 05:25 PM
>>> To: Henry Maina
>>> Cc: KICTAnet - Media Editors Forum; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] [mediaeditors] Role of the Media in Kenyan
>>> Elections
>>> 
>>> A+
>>> 
>>> From: David Makali [mailto:dmakali at yahoo.com]
>>> Sent: March 11, 2013 5:18 PM
>>> To: Edith Adera
>>> Cc: KICTAnet - Media Editors Forum; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>>> Subject: Re: [mediaeditors] [kictanet] Role of the Media in Kenyan
>>> Elections
>>> 
>>> I disagree:
>>> This boils down to the role of the media in a democratic society. Is it
>>> to abet the erosion of rights or to promote transparency and the expression
>>> of the popular will of the people? i see people on this forum trying to
>>> tweak the responsbiility of the media to their selfish interests - peace,
>>> investment and other pr concerns. those whose rights have been trampled by
>>> a fraudulent election are portrayed as a distraction in the grinding mill
>>> of our oh-so-good democracy and pretended peace. their protests are being
>>> pooh-poohed as anti-peace. i would rather not be part of this peace and
>>> tranquility bandwagon and stare the hard facts in the face. i would rather
>>> opt for the painful truth and justice path. it is the route to long lasting
>>> peace and democracy. it is the rationalisation of injustice and wrongdoing
>>> that breeds dictatorship and oppression. we must decline the popular
>>> excuses at every election that we are young and maturing, that in the
>>> interest of peace, we gloss over our failures and move on. this time, let
>>> us get it right. there should be no violence, but neither should threats of
>>> incitement be used against those who pursue their rights or the truth.
>>> the media has an obligation not just to give voice to those who are
>>> aggrieved but to go out on a limb to establish the veracity of their
>>> grievances. they cannot abdicate that responsibility as they have so far
>>> done on the pretext of keeping the peace. a sleeping press is not good even
>>> for peace. no.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - makali
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________
>>> "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live,
>>> I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
>>> ? Isaac Asimo, Columbian Author and Scientist
>>> _______________
>>> 
>>> PO Box 3234
>>> 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
>>> cell: +254 722 517 540
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>>> From: Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca<mailto:eadera at idrc.ca>>
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Dr. Warigia Bowman
>> Assistant Professor
>> Clinton School of Public Service
>> University of Arkansas
>> wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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