Hey, I agree with Muchiri. What is the core issue that we would like addressed when it comes to the ICT role in the Kenyan process? Would an ICT commissioner really resolve the issue? My perspective is no. At least not for the moment. IEBC needs to fix it's house first and the institution needs to be protected from political interference. As for Judiciary, there various components that needs to be worked on. Whether looking from knowledge and skills capacity to infrastructure. I believe some on course but it takes time. Cheers Eric Mwangi Kariuki On Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 10:05 PM Muchiri Nyaggah via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers
I think it goes beyond the technical issues of ICT in the elections. We had good amicus curiae on the ICT front in the Supreme Court petitions (the best I would want) and I think it's the best we can hope for in future petitions. Judges are probably not going to get really good at understanding ICT jargon and the emerging technologies some of us who have been in the ICT space for a few decades are struggling to contextualise. There's a political economy here which serves one party well when the masses and the judiciary believe whatever Mal/dis/misinformation is available for dissemination. A Commissioner who represents the IEBC position wouldn't help when the IEBC is itself on trial.
While there may be similarities between accounting and ICT when it comes to audit, logs etc, ICT also has to deal with the issue of the fidelity of data and logs in coming to the conclusion of whether a process and its data were tampered with or not. IEBC had ICT folks, Azimio had ICT folks, Kenya Kwanza had ICT folks.... there's no shortage of ICT professionals to "bunk" or debunk a hypothesis or claim by one side. While I have no proposals or counter proposals for Prof's proposal for Commissioner for ICT within the IEBC, I believe we need to be building the capacity of other institutions of government where that capacity could be useful in arbitrating a case such as a presidential election petition or helping the Judiciary understand what big words like CSV mean. Also, encouraging the Judiciary to admit amicus curiae of the level of those that were part of this process (Prof Walubengo, Prof Sevilla et al) could be a valuable to strengthening the Supreme Court and inspiring confidence in the process.
Just my 2 bob. I have gone like this.
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 3:01 PM David Indeje via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
[image: image.png] Dear Listers,
In our latest series of blogs about the 2022 Kenya Election as authored by Mr John Walubengo, we are posing a question:
"IEBC Commission: Should We Reserve a Slot for an ICT Professional?
Mr Walubengo notes that "In all the past three presidential petitions (2013, 2017a, and 2017b), ICT seems to have been central to the Supreme Court’s final decision. However, the way ICT matters were prosecuted, one could almost say the ICT was on trial."
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