<div dir="ltr"><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div>To give you further insights kindly <a href="https://www.kictanet.or.ke/mdocs-posts/technology-deployment-in-kenyas-2017-general-election/">refer</a> to previous reports on Tech and elections prepared by KICTANet.
<em>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) deployed a
25-person election observer mission for Kenya’s 2017 General Election
that took place on August 8, 2017. Kenyans voted for six positions
namely Presidential, Senate, Parliamentary, Women’s Representative,
Governor, and Member of County Assembly. KICTANet’s observation focused
specifically on the use of technology from a user perspective and
accordingly released a <a href="https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20170811/356bef8e/attachment.pdf">preliminary report</a> which was published on 11 August 2017.</em>Are there outstanding issues that need to be addressed? </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 12:05 PM Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Moses,</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks for your observations. I totally agree with you. Would you support any form of tools that IEBC can use to avail some of this information easily. Accessibility is definately a key issue. I tried accessing the Website yesterday but could not make it i guess due to demand. Be that as it may it would be great to have a website that factors in our differently abled brothers and sisters. Would appreciate specific recommendations on the tools IEBC can use. The time is shortly but as Commissioner Wanderi said yesterday, time is never short for good ideas to be implemented. Listers, Keep the ideas coming.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:12 AM Moses Karanja via KICTANet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Two observations:</p>
<p>1. <b>Dedicate more attention to the official website as the
main communication channel. </b>There seems to be an assumption
that Facebook and Twitter are public spaces. If you compare the
information posted on IEBC's Facebook page and what is on their
website, you will realize the idea of <i>public access</i> to
information is compromised. Facebook does not allow unsigned-in
individuals to access more than a sneak peak of pages, even the so
called "public" ones, despite the claims they make. Facebook also
breaks RSS feeds every so often to force people to sign up on
those surveillance platforms. This is not a request to Facebook to
make their surveillance platform more public-friendly, rather a
request to IEBC to treat public information as truly public by
investing in their official website. <br>
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<p>2. <b>Publish standardized machine readable data.</b> The report
IEBC published regarding 2013 election is different from what they
published in 2017 and it is again different from the 2022 tables.
Posting PDFs makes using that data harder and creates room for
error as the conversion of such data to formats like csv increases
entropy. This request has been made by so many people in the last
decade+ you feel there is more to this refusal than plain
technical limits. <br>
</p>
<p>- Njoroge wa Karanja<br>
</p>
<div>On 2022-07-13 14:02, Barrack Otieno via
KICTANet wrote:<br>
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<div>Listers,</div>
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<div>Earlier today, KICTANet held a consultative meeting with
IEBC Commissioners led by Chairman Wafula Chebukati and the
Secretariat represented by CEO Marjan Hussein and ICT Manager
Mr. Michael Ouma. This follows KICTANets participation in the
IEBC National Elections Conference yesterday. The need for
greater engagement between KICTANets Stakeholders and IEBC
featured prominently in the deliberations. <br>
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<div>As part of the engagement process , KICTANet will be
hosting a ''Talk to IEBC'' discussion which will culminate in
a Webinar that will address Technology concerns in Kenya's
electoral process. <br>
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<div>We would like to invite listers to contribute to the online
discussion that will serve as a precursor to webinar.</div>
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<div>To contribute we would like to hear from you the following:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>1. What issues do you have in so far as Tech and elections
is concern in Kenya?</div>
<div>2. What recommendations do you have in so far as the use of
Tech and elections is concerned in Kenya?</div>
<div>The discussion will take place on Thursday 14th July 2022
and Friday 15th July 2022</div>
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<div>Thank you</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Best Regards<br>
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-- <br>
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<div><b>Barrack Otieno<br>
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<div><b>Trustee</b></div>
<div><b>Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet)</b><br>
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