On 7/14/22 12:05, Barrack Otieno via KICTANet wrote:
Dear Moses,
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.
Best Regards
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:12 AM Moses Karanja via KICTANet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
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. Conversion of presidential, gubernatorial, senate and national assembly candidate lists to CSV format https://gitlab.com/chaguoke2022/wateuliwa
- Njoroge wa Karanja
On 2022-07-13 14:02, Barrack Otieno via KICTANet wrote: