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

Wed Dec 21 12:09:11 EAT 2016

Things may well have got to this point because we allowed mediocrity
to normalise in mainstream systems. A significant number of us are
subservient to a master who has no business commanding us.

Kenya, at 53, is in a moral crisis. The current political authorities
are rather incapable of speaking to it, since much of the political
order is designed to unseat the incumbents who benefit from a
fundamentally flawed political and governance system, so that others
amass the same gains.

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/nanjira/3225972-3490856-94mk1fz/index.html

On 12/21/16, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> incumbent always has an upper hand  |   |
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>>
>> walu.
>>
>>
>> ---- 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
>> Twitter: @AliHKassimSkype: abu-jomoLinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.
>> com/in/alihkassim
>>
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