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

[Odhiambo Washington]

Just to add my 0.02 cts - the powers-that-be wouldn't allow this noble
suggestion. They don't want it. If they did, such an audit would have been
carried out immediately after the last elections. My take is that it is by
design that they do not want such an open[0] and resilient system.


[0] That everyone gets to know how the system operates will take away the
advantage the powers-that-be already have, of opacity and prevent them from
exploiting the holes within it like last time.

On 21 December 2016 at 08:55, Ali Hussein via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> 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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> "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
> what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
>
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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*
>> +254 0713 601113 <0713%20601113>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>> what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
>>
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