<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dorcas</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">That is a great idea. I suggest the following action:-</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">KICTAnet and other like minded organizations like ISACA form a committee of experts and formally request for an audit at IEBC and a team of experts to be stationed at the secretariat to ensure against breaches.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This should assure all parties.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This needs to be done post-haste.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This is our country, the government is ours and the tail can't wag the dog. At least the dog shouldn't allow itself to be wagged by the dog.<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 21 Dec 2016, at 8:46 AM, Dorcas Muthoni <<a href="mailto:dmuthoni@gmail.com">dmuthoni@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto">How can we intervene to circumvent any downtime to necessitate fail over to the manual transmission. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At this point, we should be auditing the systems in place at IEBC as an ICT community. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can we take measures to be ready to show the IEBC infrastructure is resilient and guarantees the high availability desired. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best, Muthoni </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2016 5:03 AM, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Listers </div><div><br></div><div>Security personal yesterday blocked the internet, phones in and around parliament buildings during a special session to discuss the budget and amendments to the electoral law to allow for alternative manual transmission of electoral results in the event the electronic systems fail.</div><div><br></div><div>Read on:-</div><div><a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Internet--phones-blocked-as-House-debates-election-laws/539546-3493404-item-0-l9ge6u/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>businessdailyafrica.com/<wbr>Internet--phones-blocked-as-<wbr>House-debates-election-laws/<wbr>539546-3493404-item-0-l9ge6u/<wbr>index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div id="m_-3474991901121123000AppleMailSignature">A few weeks ago we discussed this issue of shutting down communication channels during crises across African countries. </div><div id="m_-3474991901121123000AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-3474991901121123000AppleMailSignature">Well now you have your answer.</div><div id="m_-3474991901121123000AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-3474991901121123000AppleMailSignature">If the government can shut down parliamentarians imagine what they can do to the rest of the country.</div><div id="m_-3474991901121123000AppleMailSignature"><br><br><div><span><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><a href="tel:0713%20601113" value="+254713601113" target="_blank">+254 0713 601113</a> </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font></font></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.<wbr>com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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