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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general
     election of 2013 (Warigia Bowman)


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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:07:20 -0500
From: Warigia Bowman <warigia@gmail.com>
To: Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the
   Kenyan general election of 2013
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Dear Dick and Brian

I think that Kictanet has a real opportunity to make sure that we do better
next time. Can we work out an agenda to plan for this?

Yours, Warigia


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com>wrote:

Now that we have a court decision that clears the matter of the

presidency, perhaps it is now time to remove the emotions of the decision,

turn away from politics and get down to the core issues in real

institutional management and those surrounding the processes and the people

around the IEBC lest we sit back and get through another four years and put

together another unit in the last year of the 5 and go back to the same

merry go round.

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*From*: kictanet **

*To*: Dick Omondi

*Cc*: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions **

*Sent*: Sat Mar 30 21:40:14 2013

*Subject*: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the

Kenyan general election of 2013

Thank you Ali. I appreciate your comments. Shukran.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:

Wariga

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the read. I want to however object to the

words:-

'...the election results show that technology has failed them.'

I humbly submit that what failed us in this case is a mix of partisan

politicking, a knack for jostling to see how each proponent could

manipulate the process for their own benefit and lastly the failure of the

IEBC leadership to accept and tell Kenyans to our faces that the most

expensive technology ever bought for elections in Kenya (and Probably

Africa) was designed to fail before it landed in the country.

I would replace the sentence '...the election results show that

technology has failed them.' with the sentence

'...the election results show that *leadership* has failed them.'

The saving grace is that we have a sober Supreme Court and we thank God

for them.

Ali Hussein

CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd

Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

+254 773/713 601113

"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Warigia Bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought you guys might enjoy this piece.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013329135519365308.html

Take a look, and tell me what you think. :-)

Warigia

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