I am really sad to see how we are somehow
implicated in the message broadcast by vernacular radio stations. Are we
supposed to operate as a censor and control the output of these stations? I do
not condone in any way any of the violence which may have been caused by their
output, but they are listened to by a great proportion of the population and
provide us with a channel to reach their listeners. Should we not
advertize on KBC radio because it is perceived to be the voice of the
Government?
I am very sad to read that you think that
we then try to assuage our guilt by our CSR programs and how it is belittled by
you. Why don’t you ask the beneficiaries of these programs if we should
stop or if the programs are meaningless? I would beg to differ and say
that the CSR programs of ourselves, EABL, Coca Cola and many others are one of
the most important development tools in this country in the last 5 years.
Regards
Michael
CEO
Safaricom Limited
From:
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On Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008
10:17 AM
To: Michael Joseph
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election
fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Hi Kagwe,
Why is it that tribal issues are most violent outcome among poor? I
believe because they suffer from more than economic poverty but also
associative poverty.
When the Luo's call their shanty villages Kisumu Ndogo and the Kikuyu's
Kwanjenga we refuse to create diversity of association and thus loose the
opportunity for cultural wealth. The creation of vernacular radio
stations has not helped the issue either. We have become worse had
implementing ethnic segregation than God or the colonizers, the Boars cannot
hold up a candle to us. What this does is it makes it uncomfortable for
me and my neighbour to listen to radio together because he is Luo and I am what
I am.
With a literacy level of 60% why are we cowering into our tribal cocoons
instead of becoming more cohesive. I believe that Kiswahili and English
programing should take up 80% of all radio station content otherwise we might
as well have the parliamentarians take a vernacular proficiency test to be
allowed to participate in elections and also have our national exams done in
vernacular.
Who funds this radio channels that propagate ethnicity, its the Breweries,
Safaricoms, Bidcos and Coca Colas as their only objective is a profit.
They then walk around flounting their CSR (or should it be CPR - corporate
profit responsibility) programs, if they refused to support all this ethnic stations
their CSR programs might be more effective. After supporting KASS FM and others
they will now be running to Eldoret to give blankets to people who where, as of
27th December, self reliant before the radio station broadcast inflammatory
contents soon after the commercial message.
The lawyers have got us to this impasse when they arm-twisted the Moi
government to issue all with radio frequencies, similarly to what they did for
Let us us make use of technology to broadcast information that will bring us
together, lets run completions that test our knowledge of other ethnic
groups. Lets install computers in our rural schools and have the children
send e-mails to each other across the country, not those misguided projects
that get Kenyan children to communicate with kids in Europe & the
Yes, I do know the causes and like a typical Kenyan I know the solutions but
only discuss them on forums instead of taking action. Like a serial
killer I am looking to be stopped, can someone push me to act on my theories?
Regards
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Tel: +254722511225
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From: James Kagwe <jkagwe@KIPPRA.OR.KE>
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tuesday, 8 January, 2008 3:09:19 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Please let us know that the problem we are
having in the country now is more in the mind than anywhere else. Technology could
help but even with technology it is possible for people who have the same
tribal convictions that their tribal chief has to be the president to conspire
to inflate the polls and actually go ahead and mark the ballot papers in favor
of their candidate.
Tribalism is the main problem and this has
to be fought by all means. Most of the problems were experienced in the
strongholds of the main candidates and this confirms the greatest worry.
From:
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[mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Evelyn Rono
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008
12:29 PM
To: James Kagwe
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions'
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election
fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Hi Bobby,
Several ICT companies and individuals
approached the ECK with the intention of supporting and a managing the
process with ICT. I quote “ ECK in 2004
was provided with IT hardware & software and GIS electoral database created
with each individual polling station positions' mapped using GIS technology
that integrated with the electoral database through a unique ID for polling
station. The constituency boundaries provided the domain universe within
which each polling station could be located for administrative purposes.
Training was also conducted for ECK”. The same company tried to do
the same 2007
This did not happen – Only ECK knows.
Evelyn Rono
From:
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On Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008
11:51 AM
To: evelyn.rono@kdn.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] Election
fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Happy new year to you all and I pray that you are all well.
It is shocking that in this day and age we can actually have the kind of
electoral fiasco that has been visited on us by the ECK and Co as well as the
political parties.
This draconian problem reared its head when the
After this issue Kivuiti dismissed the SMS service that had been made available
by Telkom to enable voters confirm their details. He even went to the
extent of saying he does not know how to send an SMS. As the IT
fraternity in the country can we really escape blame for this fiasco?
The next time was when I saw Hon. Ruto standing at KICC and screaming
himself hoarse over the forms 16 & 16A that had not been received. It
seems he might be using a Nokia 1018 mobile phone (he actually uses a Nokia N
series).
Was it so difficult for the opposition to provide each of their agents with a
camera equipped mobile phone that they would have used to to take pictures of
the form and also record the returning officer announcing the results.
This would then have been easily sent to party head quarters.
There are 210 or so constituencies in the country and the mobile phones I am
talking about cost about 10,000/- each do the math.
I ask am I the only Kenyan who is aware of such technology or is this entire
fiasco a stage managed process. Even the EU observer teams came equipped as
if it was the 12th Century after which they proceeded to make unsupported
statements about the result that further inflamed bloodshed.
Maybe its a techie thing to keep in our glass houses and refuse to add value to
a process and only send around message (this one included) after the
fact.
It is re-assuring when we remember the
What will be our contribution to stopping this from being repeated in future?
Regards
Remember Matiba and his video cameras during the good old days of mulolongo
voting?
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Tel: +254722511225
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