[kictanet] Should We Reserve a Slot for an ICT Professional Within the IEBC Commission??

[Muchiri Nyaggah]

Listers

I think it goes beyond the technical issues of ICT in the elections. We had
good amicus curiae on the ICT front in the Supreme Court petitions (the
best I would want) and I think it's the best we can hope for in future
petitions. Judges are probably not going to get really good at
understanding ICT jargon and the emerging technologies some of us who have
been in the ICT space for a few decades are struggling to contextualise.
There's a political economy here which serves one party well when the
masses and the judiciary believe whatever Mal/dis/misinformation is
available for dissemination. A Commissioner who represents the IEBC
position wouldn't help when the IEBC is itself on trial.

While there may be similarities between accounting and ICT when it comes to
audit, logs etc, ICT also has to deal with the issue of the fidelity of
data and logs in coming to the conclusion of whether a process and its data
were tampered with or not. IEBC had ICT folks, Azimio had ICT folks, Kenya
Kwanza had ICT folks.... there's no shortage of ICT professionals to "bunk"
or debunk a hypothesis or claim by one side. While I have no proposals or
counter proposals for Prof's proposal for Commissioner for ICT within the
IEBC, I believe we need to be building the capacity of other institutions
of government where that capacity could be useful in arbitrating a case
such as a presidential election petition or helping the Judiciary
understand what big words like CSV mean. Also, encouraging the Judiciary to
admit amicus curiae of the level of those that were part of this process
(Prof Walubengo, Prof Sevilla et al) could be a valuable to strengthening
the Supreme Court and inspiring confidence in the process.

Just my 2 bob. I have gone like this.



Kind regards,

Muchiri Nyaggah
@muchiri
Cell: +254 722 506400
Skype: mrmuchiri





On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 3:01 PM David Indeje via KICTANet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

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> Dear Listers,
>
> In our latest series of blogs about the 2022 Kenya Election as authored by
> Mr John Walubengo, we are posing a question:
>
> "IEBC Commission: Should We Reserve a Slot for an ICT Professional?
>
> Mr Walubengo notes that "In all the past three presidential petitions
> (2013, 2017a, and 2017b), ICT seems to have been central to the Supreme
> Court’s final decision. However, the way ICT matters were prosecuted, one
> could almost say the ICT was on trial."
>
> Read the rest of the article here: https://tinyurl.com/3sh2h4vt
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