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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Am not so sure that the system was a success. Over one third of polling stations failed to transmit electronically for various reasons including poor network (5,964 failed of a total of 20,750 polling stations). This would be chaos for a general election.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> wamuyulearn@yahoo.co.uk<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, 5 August, 2010 10:07:15<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [kictanet] electronic results Referendum system..<BR></FONT><BR>Listers,<BR><BR>I hope the success is 'Institutionalised' and is not a sporadic wave as has been the case before :-), this is the only way it can be replicated, otherwise thumbs up to the IIEC and all who made it possible for the referendum to succeed.<BR><BR>Best Regards<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Ms. Muthoni Masinde <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:muthoni@uonbi.ac.ke" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:muthoni@uonbi.ac.ke">muthoni@uonbi.ac.ke</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>I am joining in to say kudos too; I am totally amazed that all I needed to<BR>do (from Cape Town) was to access the Nation Media and website and view<BR>live results being relayed from the polling stations.<BR><BR>Congratulations to all those that made this 'miracle' possible. One more<BR>reason that makes me very proud of Kenya and ICT.<BR><BR>Muthoni<BR>
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<DIV class=h5><BR><BR><BR>> Indeed, the government shared services project(s) should learn from this!<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> Edwin<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=<A href="http://lynxbits.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>lynxbits.com</A>@<A href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>lists.kictanet.or.ke</A><BR>> [mailto:<A href="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Beonchari" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kictanet-bounces%2Beonchari">kictanet-bounces+eonchari</A>=<A href="http://lynxbits.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>lynxbits.com</A>@<A href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>lists.kictanet.or.ke</A>] On<BR>> Behalf Of Walubengo J<BR>> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:05 AM<BR>> To: Edwin<BR>> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<BR>> Subject: [kictanet] electronic results Referendum system..<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>
folks,<BR>><BR>> i dont know about you but am totally blown away by the affordability and<BR>> simplicity of the electronic results system currently in use at Bomas. I<BR>> mean, think about it, a mobile phone of less than 30USD and an SMS message<BR>> of less than 1USD and some piece software and you get results securely<BR>> checked into a central server, tallied and and instantly relayed to the<BR>> public.<BR>><BR>> This to me is eGovernance without the usual big budgets and subsequent<BR>> failure that often accompanies ICT projects...more importantly I want to<BR>> believe, this is the beginning of how elections will be conducted in<BR>> future.<BR>><BR>> walu.<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>> Checked by AVG - <A href="http://www.avg.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.avg.com</A><BR>> Version: 8.5.441 / Virus Database:
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