[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 70, Issue 196

Sun Mar 31 12:51:43 EAT 2013

Hey All,

The question lies here, why did we not do anything this time around, apologies next time is not good enough...

Best Regards,

Baiju Shah
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>   1. Re: Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general
>      election of 2013 (Warigia Bowman)
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> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:07:20 -0500
> From: Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
> To: Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi at ke.airtel.com>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the
>    Kenyan general election of 2013
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> Dear Dick and Brian
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> I think that Kictanet has a real opportunity to make sure that we do better
> next time. Can we work out an agenda to plan for this?
> 
> Yours, Warigia
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi at ke.airtel.com>wrote:
> 
>> Now that we have a court decision that clears the matter of the
>> presidency, perhaps it is now time to remove the emotions of the decision,
>> turn away from politics and get down to the core issues in real
>> institutional management and those surrounding the processes and the people
>> around the IEBC lest we sit back and get through another four years and put
>> together another unit in the last year of the 5 and go back to the same
>> merry go round.
>> 
>> ------------------------------
>> *From*: kictanet **
>> *To*: Dick Omondi
>> *Cc*: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions **
>> *Sent*: Sat Mar 30 21:40:14 2013
>> 
>> *Subject*: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the
>> Kenyan general election of 2013
>> 
>> Thank you Ali. I appreciate your comments. Shukran.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>> 
>>> Wariga
>>> 
>>> Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the read. I want to however object to the
>>> words:-
>>> 
>>> '...the election results show that technology has failed them.'
>>> 
>>> I humbly submit that what failed us in this case is a mix of partisan
>>> politicking, a knack for jostling to see how each proponent could
>>> manipulate the process for their own benefit and lastly the failure of the
>>> IEBC leadership to accept and tell Kenyans to our faces that the most
>>> expensive technology ever bought for elections in Kenya (and Probably
>>> Africa) was designed to fail before it landed in the country.
>>> 
>>> I would replace the sentence '...the election results show that
>>> technology has failed them.' with the sentence
>>> 
>>> '...the election results show that *leadership* has failed them.'
>>> 
>>> The saving grace is that we have a sober Supreme Court and we thank God
>>> for them.
>>> 
>>> Ali Hussein
>>> CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd
>>> Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd
>>> 
>>> +254 773/713 601113
>>> 
>>> "The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:05 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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>> View my research on my SSRN Author page:
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> University of Arkansas
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