[kictanet] Cambridge Analytica and the Kenyan Elections

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Why would anyone want to intern with a psychological warfare firm, I
ask him. And he looks at me like I am mad. “It was like working for
MI6. Only it’s MI6 for hire. It was very posh, very English, run by an
old Etonian and you got to do some really cool things. Fly all over
the world. You were working with the president of Kenya or Ghana or
wherever. It’s not like election campaigns in the west. You got to do
all sorts of crazy shit.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
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On 10 May 2017 at 13:44, Eric Mwangi via kictanet
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> This is an interesting development - I was seconded last year to CA during
> the Ted Cruz campaign and later during Donald's Trump campaign.
>
> And you are right - however it's not only an issue of data present ( which I
> am not sure it exists) but data collected was real-time and decisions made
> real time. That type of ecosystem is not easy to create - however am sure
> they will take the money and run.
>
> Yes irony of ironies even CA's data showed DT was going to loose -
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 10 May 2017, at 10:29, Grace Mutung'u via kictanet
> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> Jubilee has contracted the services of global data mining company Cambridge
> Analytica in the run-up to the August presidential election.
>
> http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/05/10/uhuru-hires-data-firm-behind-trump-brexit-victories_c1557720
>
> Do we really have that much data in Kenya for the kind of data mining that
> Cambridge Analytica allegedly carries out?
> Interesting times....
>
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