[kictanet] Internet, phones blocked as House debates election laws - Politics and policy

[Dorcas Muthoni]

How can we intervene to circumvent any downtime to necessitate fail over to
the manual transmission.

At this point,  we should be auditing the systems in place at IEBC as an
ICT community.

Can we take measures to be ready to show the IEBC infrastructure is
resilient and guarantees the high availability desired.

Best, Muthoni

On Dec 21, 2016 5:03 AM, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers
>
> Security personal yesterday blocked the internet, phones in and around
> parliament buildings during a special session to discuss the budget and
> amendments to the electoral law to allow for alternative manual
> transmission of electoral results in the event the electronic systems fail.
>
> Read on:-
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Internet--phones-blocked-as-
> House-debates-election-laws/539546-3493404-item-0-l9ge6u/index.html
>
> A few weeks ago we discussed this issue of shutting down communication
> channels during crises across African countries.
>
> Well now you have your answer.
>
> If the government can shut down parliamentarians imagine what they can do
> to the rest of the country.
>
>
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