[kictanet] Invitation to Participate in ' Talk to IEBC'

Barrack Otieno otieno.barrack at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 13:21:11 EAT 2022


Many thanks Benson, Moses and Mutheu for contributing to yesterday's
discussion. Listers the floor is still open for you to contribute'i will
share a summary of todays discussion.

Thank  you

Best Regards

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:02 PM Benson Muite via KICTANet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Transmission of results can also be done by USSD not just by internet. A
> credible process cannot be ensured by ICT aspects alone, though ICT can
> increase efficiency. Observers should also be able to report results
> that are announced at polling stations.
>
> While there is a law on data protection, educational and technical
> aspects seem less well developed. This affects other areas, not just
> elections.
>
> Holistic planning is missing, many polling stations are schools, so
> purchasing infrastructure just for the election and not having a reuse
> plan may be a waste of resources.
>
> It may be worth comparing with information provided to voters and
> procedures followed in other African countries, for example South Africa
> and Ghana:
>
> https://www.elections.org.za/pw/Downloads/Documents-Voter-Education-Material
> https://ec.gov.gh/elections-instructions/
>
> On 7/14/22 12:58, Barrack Otieno via KICTANet wrote:
> > Listers,
> >
> > To give you further insights kindly refer
> > <
> https://www.kictanet.or.ke/mdocs-posts/technology-deployment-in-kenyas-2017-general-election/>
>
> > to previous reports on Tech and elections prepared by KICTANet. /The
> > Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) deployed a 25-person election
> > observer mission for Kenya’s 2017 General Election that took place on
> > August 8, 2017. Kenyans voted for six positions namely Presidential,
> > Senate, Parliamentary, Women’s Representative, Governor, and Member of
> > County Assembly. KICTANet’s observation focused specifically on the use
> > of technology from a user perspective and accordingly released a
> > preliminary report
> > <
> https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20170811/356bef8e/attachment.pdf>
>
> > which was published on 11 August 2017./Are there outstanding issues that
> > need to be addressed?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:05 PM Barrack Otieno
> > <otieno.barrack at gmail.com <mailto:otieno.barrack at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear Moses,
> >
> >     Many thanks for your observations. I totally agree with you. Would
> >     you support any form of tools that IEBC can use to avail some of
> >     this information easily. Accessibility is definately a key issue. I
> >     tried accessing the Website yesterday but could not make it i guess
> >     due to demand. Be that as it may it would be great to have a website
> >     that factors in our differently abled brothers and sisters. Would
> >     appreciate specific recommendations on the tools IEBC can use. The
> >     time is shortly but as Commissioner Wanderi said yesterday, time is
> >     never short for good ideas to be implemented. Listers, Keep the
> >     ideas coming.
> >
> >     Best Regards
> >
> >     On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:12 AM Moses Karanja via KICTANet
> >     <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> >     <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
> >
> >         Two observations:
> >
> >         1. *Dedicate more attention to the official website as the main
> >         communication channel. *There seems to be an assumption that
> >         Facebook and Twitter are public spaces. If you compare the
> >         information posted on IEBC's Facebook page and what is on their
> >         website, you will realize the idea of /public access/ to
> >         information is compromised. Facebook does not allow unsigned-in
> >         individuals to access more than a sneak peak of pages, even the
> >         so called "public" ones, despite the claims they make. Facebook
> >         also breaks RSS feeds every so often to force people to sign up
> >         on those surveillance platforms. This is not a request to
> >         Facebook to make their surveillance platform more
> >         public-friendly, rather a request to IEBC to treat public
> >         information as truly public by investing in their official
> website.
> >
> >         2. *Publish standardized machine readable data.* The report IEBC
> >         published regarding 2013 election is different from what they
> >         published in 2017 and it is again different from the 2022
> >         tables. Posting PDFs makes using that data harder and creates
> >         room for error as the conversion of such data to formats like
> >         csv increases entropy. This request has been made by so many
> >         people in the last decade+ you feel there is more to this
> >         refusal than plain technical limits.
> >
> >         - Njoroge wa Karanja
> >
> >         On 2022-07-13 14:02, Barrack Otieno via KICTANet wrote:
> >>         Listers,
> >>
> >>         Earlier today, KICTANet held a consultative meeting with IEBC
> >>         Commissioners led by Chairman Wafula Chebukati and the
> >>         Secretariat represented by CEO Marjan Hussein and ICT Manager
> >>         Mr. Michael Ouma. This follows KICTANets participation in the
> >>         IEBC National Elections Conference yesterday. The need for
> >>         greater engagement between KICTANets Stakeholders and IEBC
> >>         featured prominently in the deliberations.
> >>
> >>         As part of the engagement process , KICTANet will be hosting a
> >>         ''Talk to IEBC'' discussion which will culminate in a Webinar
> >>         that will address Technology concerns in Kenya's electoral
> >>         process.
> >>
> >>         We would like to invite listers to contribute to the online
> >>         discussion that will serve as a precursor to webinar.
> >>
> >>         To contribute we would like to hear from you the following:
> >>
> >>         1. What issues do you have in so far as Tech and elections is
> >>         concern in Kenya?
> >>         2. What recommendations do you have in so far as the use of
> >>         Tech and elections is concerned in Kenya?
> >>         The discussion will take place on Thursday 14th July 2022 and
> >>         Friday 15th July 2022
> >>
> >>         Thank you
> >>
> >>         Best Regards
> >>
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