[kictanet] State to partner with Israeli firm to create online database of Kenyans

[S.M. Muraya]

Not sure why we need Israelis to build this database for Kenya. They could
guide/train us but it is not for non Kenyans to lead its development and
management.

http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Online-Database-Technology-Public-Servants-Profile/-/996/2421390/-/svf5fw/-/index.html

Kenyan State to partner with Israeli firm to create online database of
Kenyans

Note comments made in 2009.....

*Israel Poised To Pass National I.D. Database Law*

By Nathan Jeffay

Published August 12, 2009, issue of August 21, 2009.

HAIFA, ISRAEL — Israel may become the only democratic country to take
biometric information from all citizens and store it in a database.

The plan, approved by a Knesset committee and set for a final vote in the
fall, is expected to pass easily, as the largest opposition party and the
government support the bill. But that apparently won’t prevent outraged
human rights organizations, academics and grass-roots activists from
spending the rest of the summer protesting the plan.

Champions of the database say it is crucial for Israel’s security. “The
danger to the state in the present situation, in which there is no database
of biometric information, is critical,” according to Kadima lawmaker Meir
Sheetrit, who drafted the bill.

But opponents say that it actually will jeopardize security. “If such a
database gets in the hands of a foreign country or terrorist organization,
they will be able to identify any Israeli anywhere by their fingerprints or
their picture,” claimed computer security expert Eli Biham, dean of
computer science at Israel’s leading high-tech research institution, the
Haifa-based Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Read more:
http://forward.com/articles/112033/israel-poised-to-pass-national-id-database-law/#ixzz3AavDDUx5
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