<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hey All,</div><div><br></div><div>The question lies here, why did we not do anything this time around, apologies next time is not good enough...<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Baiju Shah<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Managing Partner|Telemedia Africa Ltd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" width="264" height="92" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE2578.9DEF6C20"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Suite 12|Chaka Court | Argwings Kodek Road,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; "><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5/0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5/0">P.O. 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Re: Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general</span><br><span> election of 2013 (Warigia Bowman)</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Message: 1</span><br><span>Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:07:20 -0500</span><br><span>From: Warigia Bowman <<a href="mailto:warigia@gmail.com">warigia@gmail.com</a>></span><br><span>To: Dick Omondi <<a href="mailto:Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com">Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com</a>></span><br><span>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the</span><br><span> Kenyan general election of 2013</span><br><span>Message-ID:</span><br><span> <<a href="mailto:CACeY99QbjXqkSu4nt0T8iodgDFqJ8p+=cA+=x5jQ7CXkW_cMjA@mail.gmail.com">CACeY99QbjXqkSu4nt0T8iodgDFqJ8p+=cA+=x5jQ7CXkW_cMjA@mail.gmail.com</a>></span><br><span>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"</span><br><span></span><br><span>Dear Dick and Brian</span><br><span></span><br><span>I think that Kictanet has a real opportunity to make sure that we do better</span><br><span>next time. Can we work out an agenda to plan for this?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Yours, Warigia</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Dick Omondi <<a href="mailto:Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com">Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com</a>>wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Now that we have a court decision that clears the matter of the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>presidency, perhaps it is now time to remove the emotions of the decision,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>turn away from politics and get down to the core issues in real</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>institutional management and those surrounding the processes and the people</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>around the IEBC lest we sit back and get through another four years and put</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>together another unit in the last year of the 5 and go back to the same</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>merry go round.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>------------------------------</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> *From*: kictanet **</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>*To*: Dick Omondi</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Cc*: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions **</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Sent*: Sat Mar 30 21:40:14 2013</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>*Subject*: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Kenyan general election of 2013</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thank you Ali. I appreciate your comments. Shukran.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Wariga</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the read. I want to however object to the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>words:-</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>'...the election results show that technology has failed them.'</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I humbly submit that what failed us in this case is a mix of partisan</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>politicking, a knack for jostling to see how each proponent could</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>manipulate the process for their own benefit and lastly the failure of the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>IEBC leadership to accept and tell Kenyans to our faces that the most</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>expensive technology ever bought for elections in Kenya (and Probably</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Africa) was designed to fail before it landed in the country.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I would replace the sentence '...the election results show that</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>technology has failed them.' with the sentence</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>'...the election results show that *leadership* has failed them.'</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The saving grace is that we have a sober Supreme Court and we thank God</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>for them.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ali Hussein</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>+254 773/713 601113</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from my iPad</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Warigia Bowman <<a href="mailto:warigia@gmail.com">warigia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I thought you guys might enjoy this piece.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013329135519365308.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013329135519365308.html</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Take a look, and tell me what you think. :-)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Warigia</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>kictanet mailing list</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Unsubscribe or change your options at</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com">https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/info%40alyhussein.com</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>regulation. 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