Two observations:

1. Dedicate more attention to the official website as the main communication channel. 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 public access 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.

2. Publish standardized machine readable data. 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.

- Njoroge wa Karanja

Listers,

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.

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.

We would like to invite listers to contribute to the online discussion that will serve as a precursor to webinar.

To contribute we would like to hear from you the following:

1. What issues do you have in so far as Tech and elections is concern in Kenya?

2. What recommendations do you have in so far as the use of Tech and elections is concerned in Kenya?

The discussion will take place on Thursday 14th July 2022 and Friday 15th July 2022

Thank you

Best Regards

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Barrack Otieno

Trustee

Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet)

Skype:barrack.otieno

+254721325277

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrack-otieno-2101262b/

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