[kictanet] Can technology solve terrorist problems in Kenya?

[Daudi Were]

Some observations:

   1. The IEBC are now considered experts on registration - interesting!
   2. There is already a technical team made up of the Ministries of
   Information, Communication and Technology and Interior and Coordination of
   National Government - that was quick!
   3. The government has their key messaging co-ordinated on this. Check
   out the quotes from two Cabinet Secretaries:

“This is your *know-your-citizen* campaign that will help us develop a*
reliable master database* that will help us in national planning and
security,” - Matiang’i
“We must *know who is a Kenyan* and who is not. We can only do this
from a *credible
digital database*,” - ole Lenku

This suggests that messaging is being very controlled centrally and all
talking points comes from the same source. Expect to hear more about
knowing each other and the databases that will help us do that from other
Cabinet Secretaries in the next few weeks.

D





On 14 April 2014 22:22, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:

> Government to register all Kenyans afresh in digital database
>
> http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html
>
> I've always wondered why it's virtually impossible to get UK or US
> citizenship through the back door, unless you get into a phony
> marriage with a delinquent from those countries. Will setting up a
> biometric database prevent rogue employees at the department of
> registration from getting bribes to register foreigners as Kenyan
> citizens? As far as I can remember, when I applied for the kipande,
> all my 10 digits' prints were taken.
>
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