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

Sat Dec 24 16:42:58 EAT 2016

Dear All,

It is all about who will win the ......

Are the right qualified with the right experience auditing any process or database...

The Lobby and Industry Groups are trying but their leadership have very little know how what tech can do as the chairman of one such group can argue on the difference as an expert... in technology. I thought the expertise was in business of manufacturing.

Therefore, as an industry we look at the contract given out for the review / audit of the voter register... here lies the issue we give it to a big 4 and what real skills do they have in the AFIS, Matching and verification ...  in my humble view pretty close the negative zero. Plus the process followed with an EOI? In 2016 we are not even be able to follow a simple procurement process, and we accept this?

Finally, we have the law which states that we adopt to electronic democracy, we go back and change it to manual as means of plan B.

Let's look at a solution and providing a good solution and lean on India ... Mr Modi was here a few moons ago and there were some bilateral agreements in place, can we not piggy back on this??? India is fully electronic with more remote areas then Kenya, can we not use the Mawingu - White space project to provide the secure bandwidth or a satellite formation that will ensure the connect. Can we not hire the device used by India and challenge our young ICT community to build an innovative app. Etc etc 

My 2 cents worth....

Merry Christmas

And Happy New Year 2016 

Best Regards,
Baiju
Tel. 0787332247

> On 21 Dec 2016, at 20:49, Odhiambo Washington via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> It's more likely jamming the GSM signal than the base stations option. You see, parliament has good GSM coverage everywhere due to it's location - I suppose.
> But again, what matters is the action, not the method used. It's an undesirable action in this time and age. And it's worrying enough that this same action is very likely to be replicated in 2017 in certain areas.... 
> 
>> On 21 December 2016 at 20:25, Alex Watila via kictanet <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> I am curious if they blocked gsm or just turned off the base stations that served that area.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+awatila=yahoo.co.uk at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Tony White via kictanet
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>> To: awatila at yahoo.co.uk
>> Cc: Tony White <tony.mzungu at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Internet, phones blocked as House debates election laws - Politics and policy
>> 
>> Technology to locally disable gsm devices has been available commercially for a long time, and is typically used in some countries in areas you are asked not to use mobile phones, such as cinemas.  I'm not sure if this tech is legal here.  Advice from CA is needed.
>> 
>> I am guessing, but I think the reported blocking of 'internet' was only via gsm, and was blocked as a consequence of blocking the gsm devices.
>> 
>> Whether such localised blocking of communications is permissible is debatable, but it certainly gives cause for concern.
>> 
>> I think clear direction is needed ahead of August 2017
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Tony
>> 
>> 
>> On 21/12/2016, 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-d
>> > ebates-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
>> >
>> > Twitter: @AliHKassim
>> > Skype: abu-jomo
>> > LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>> >
>> >
>> > "Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
>> > what no one else has thought".  ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> 
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