[kictanet] Fwd: Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general election of 2013

[Warigia Bowman]

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From: Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan
general election of 2013
To: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com>


Thanks Dennis, I appreciate your comments.

I think that we should work as a Kictanet on this issue? can I post them?

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Straight to the point and I like the inclusion of doubt of technology in
> the US. I think another issue here us that IEBC failed to have contingency
> plans in place(though we can argue that paper is a fall back plan -
> however, this was not expressly stated, that in case of technology failure,
> we would resort to paper).
>
> From here, maybe I can suggest Dr. ,  is there a way technology can be
> made trustworthy for elections, such as maybe making procurement of systems
> open and also making the systems architecturally open for scrutiny.
>
> I feel the mistrust comes from people not knowing what happens "in there"
> On Mar 29, 2013 11:40 PM, "Warigia Bowman" <warigia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought you guys might enjoy this piece.
>>
>> http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013329135519365308.html
>>
>> Take a look, and tell me what you think. :-)
>>
>> Warigia
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Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu
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-- 
Dr. Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor
Clinton School of Public Service
University of Arkansas
wbowman at clintonschool.uasys.edu
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View my research on my SSRN Author page:
http://ssrn.com/author=1479660
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