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

[Ali Hussein]

Dorcas

That is a great idea. I suggest the following action:-

KICTAnet and other like minded organizations like ISACA form a committee of experts and formally request for an audit at IEBC and a team of experts to be stationed at the secretariat to ensure against breaches.

This should assure all parties.

This needs to be done post-haste.

This is our country, the government is ours and the tail can't wag the dog. At least the dog shouldn't allow itself to be wagged by the dog.

Ali Hussein
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> On 21 Dec 2016, at 8:46 AM, Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> Ali Hussein
>> Principal
>> Hussein & Associates
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>> 
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>> 
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