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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Please let us know that the problem we are
having in the country now is more in the mind than anywhere else. Technology
could help but even with technology it is possible for people who have the same
tribal convictions that their tribal chief has to be the president to conspire
to inflate the polls and actually go ahead and mark the ballot papers in favor
of their candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tribalism is the main problem and this has
to be fought by all means. Most of the problems were experienced in the
strongholds of the main candidates and this confirms the greatest worry.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Evelyn Rono<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 08, 2008
12:29 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">James
Kagwe</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> 'KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Election
fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Hi Bobby,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Several ICT
companies and individuals approached the ECK with the intention of
supporting and a managing the process with ICT. I quote
“ ECK in </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>2004 was provided with IT
hardware & software and GIS electoral database created with each individual
polling station positions' mapped using GIS technology that integrated with the
electoral database through a unique ID for polling station. The
constituency boundaries provided the domain universe within which each polling
station could be located for administrative purposes. Training was also
conducted for ECK”. The same company tried to do the same 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>This did not happen – Only ECK knows.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Evelyn Rono</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>robert yawe<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 08, 2008
11:51 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> evelyn.rono@kdn.co.ke<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] Election
fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Happy new year to you all and I pray that you are all well.<br>
<br>
It is shocking that in this day and age we can actually have the kind of
electoral fiasco that has been visited on us by the ECK and Co as well as the
political parties.<br>
<br>
This draconian problem reared its head when the <st1:place w:st="on">Orange</st1:place>
house was broken into and the computers stolen. Hon.Nyongo's statement
indicated that the objective was to steal the member register. If I
needed to steal the register which from his comments was in electronic form
what was the need of taking off with the computer. Has he ever heard of
flash disks, external hard dis drives and CD/DVD writers. Technology
allows me to steal his data without him every knowing.<br>
<br>
After this issue Kivuiti dismissed the SMS service that had been made available
by Telkom to enable voters confirm their details. He even went to the
extent of saying he does not know how to send an SMS. As the IT
fraternity in the country can we really escape blame for this fiasco?<br>
<br>
The next time was when I saw Hon. Ruto standing at KICC and screaming
himself hoarse over the forms 16 & 16A that had not been received. It
seems he might be using a Nokia 1018 mobile phone (he actually uses a Nokia N
series). <br>
<br>
Was it so difficult for the opposition to provide each of their agents with a
camera equipped mobile phone that they would have used to to take pictures of
the form and also record the returning officer announcing the results.
This would then have been easily sent to party head quarters.<br>
<br>
There are 210 or so constituencies in the country and the mobile phones I am
talking about cost about 10,000/- each do the math. <br>
<br>
I ask am I the only Kenyan who is aware of such technology or is this entire
fiasco a stage managed process. Even the EU observer teams came equipped
as if it was the 12th Century after which they proceeded to make unsupported
statements about the result that further inflamed bloodshed.<br>
<br>
Maybe its a techie thing to keep in our glass houses and refuse to add value to
a process and only send around message (this one included) after the
fact. <br>
<br>
It is re-assuring when we remember the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Florida</st1:State></st1:place>
fiasco but this not withstanding do we really have a moral standing to point
fingers about the election results?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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What will be our contribution to stopping this from being repeated in future?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Remember Matiba and his video cameras during the good old days of mulolongo
voting?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Robert Yawe<br>
KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:City></st1:place> House,
6th Floor<br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">P O Box 55806</st1:Street> <st1:City
w:st="on">Nairobi</st1:City></st1:address>, 00200<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">KEnya</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Tel: +254722511225<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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