Why is another country paying for and procuring as critical and sensitive a national infrastructure and resource as our national election system?<br><br>Total, absolute fail!<br><br>Brian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Dorcas Muthoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmuthoni@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmuthoni@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Now, there is loads of information that is becoming available about the system. I am sharing more that has come my way:<div>
<br></div><div><ol><li>The RFP used to source a vendor: <a href="http://buyersguide.ifes.org/procurement_pdf/1356124968.pdf" target="_blank">http://buyersguide.ifes.org/procurement_pdf/1356124968.pdf</a></li>
<li>RFP was closing only 4th January, 2013, yes..only this January<br></li><li>An external party (US based) that seems to have been fully involved in the entire procurement process and i would imagine implementation as well is <a href="http://www.ifes.org/" target="_blank">http://www.ifes.org/</a>. See all details about their role in the RFP and others on their website.</li>
<li>Project was USAID funded.</li><li>A good blog with several discussions on this: <a href="http://iebctechkenya.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://iebctechkenya.tumblr.com/</a></li></ol><div>Before we blame anybody or feel sorry for any party, Please lets do a thorough review of the ongoings. I am sure we shall then address the IT problem in this case.</div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Edith Adera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eadera@idrc.ca" target="_blank">eadera@idrc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This story and another on safaricom being pressured not to support the transmission was in the public domain, as a sector, we should have discussed these ahead of time.<br>
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these articles were in the public domain.<br>
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Stories that we may have missed:<br>
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<a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-108148/iebc-must-fix-results-transmission-system-fast" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-108148/iebc-must-fix-results-transmission-system-fast</a><br>
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Story was published as early as Feb 19th 2013.<br>
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I hope in future, departments like Directorate of e-Goverment launch competent QA and IS Audit teams that could be more involved in software projects at various agencies. It would be good for all of us.<br>
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