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

Wed Dec 21 11:58:03 EAT 2016

Many thanks Dorcas, Ali and Walu for your insights,

Parliament reconvenes on Thursday to discuss the elections matter vide
a special gazette notice, things are really elephant it seems.

Looking at the situation i am asking myself:

1) Who is advising parliament on ICT related matters. I see KEPSA
lobbying and engaging with parliament a lot on ICT related issues,
what is their position on the same and how can industry and or
stakeholders advise parliament?. For those who are following
developments on social media you can attest to the fact that
temperatures and really rising and that it is the business community
that bears the brunt whenever parliament mishandles issues.

We can choose the usual middle class path and hide our heads in the
sand hoping things will sort themselves out or be proactive as
stakeholders and engage before things get out of hand. As ICT
professionals we have a responsibility to provide clarity on the
contentious issues, i am looking forwad to seeing the position of
KEPSA, ISACA and other industry associations on this matter.

Regards

On 12/21/16, Walubengo J via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> @ Dorcas,
> The simple answer is that you/we cant. And it has nothing to do with
> technology. The system will fail even if you hired Bill Gates, Zuckerberg,
> Larry Page + the late Steve Jobs to code and run it ;-).
> So we should be discussing what point of failure, beyond which we must then
> repeat the polls in specific polling stations, wards, constituencies or
> counties. This has to do with Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery
> Time Objectives (RTO) - for those in the business continuity discipline.
> The agreement to the repeat exercise will in itself then act as a deterrent
> for malicious failure, and perhaps lead to a surprisingly flawless
> electronic execution.
> Here is my full take on the issue.
> WALUBENGO: On electronic polling, both Cord and Jubilee are
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> WALUBENGO: On electronic polling, both Cord and Jubilee are
>  Nothing stops the opposition from abusing a failed system, but the
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> walu.
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> ---- From: Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>  To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com>
>  Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 8:46 AM
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Internet, phones blocked as House debates election
> laws - Politics and policy
>
> 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 HusseinPrincipalHussein & Associates+254 0713 601113
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