Gentlemen,
Thanks for sharing your concerns. I would agree with MM and Zachary because KNEC ought to have known every candidate and parents would be interested in getting their results at the earliest hour and should have tested the system's capacity ahead of time. It is sad upto this hour, I spent on SMS three times and no reply yet. If such trends continue, the ICT investments might just be a wate of public funds and citizens might lose faith in the so called e-Govt. I would humbly request the PS, Dr Bitange and the ICT Board to intervene and find out what transpired at the KNEC system.

For the parents who had 2009 candidates, I am concerned with the general national perfomance taking into account that subjects such as SST where candidates usually score high marks recorded poor performance, something is not right somewhere.

WISHING YOU A HAPPY 2010

Akich Kwach

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> Thanks barrack
> For the candidate and their family they interacted with the ict system and the interface was the sms and the web. We should not hide behind huge traffic because the phenomena and the time is known and the implications.
> Another terrible failure is that i and many thousands kenyans paid upfront to the ict system for a service that was not delivered
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> Subject: Re: [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal
> Author: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>
> Date: 29th December 2009 12:51
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> MM,
>
> I guess it's a bit premature to blame the System, the problem stems from how
> the whole announcement was managed, it was improper for the Ministers
> handlers to say the results would be available on the site immediately after
> the speech, with the anxiety that had been going on i'm sure even the best
> servers might not have handled the hits, no wonder the systems were unable
> to cope, however this serves as a lesson to KNEC, i am sure they will do
> better in 2010.
>
> Happy New Year !
>
> On 12/29/09, mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
>>
>> Zachary
>> This was the great opportunity for the ict system to prove its value to our
>> society. It failed miserably to just serve less than 1 percent of the
>> population and had to walk to schools. Zain however stood tall and 2228
>> worked.
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>> Subject: [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal
>> Author: Zachary Ochieng <zzachmbir@yahoo.com>
>> Date: 29th December 2009 09:59
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>>
>> Despite the digitisation of exam results by the Kenya National
>> Examinations Council (KNEC) and the Ministry of Education, the platform
>> doesn't seem to be working. My daughter is one of the candidates who sat
>> KCPE in November 2009. But more than two hours after the release of the
>> results by Education minister Sam Ongeri, the KNEC website from where the
>> candidates are supposed to check their results remains down. Worse still,
>> the 2228 no. to which candidates should text their index numbers to get
>> results is also not working but continues to consume airtime to the tune of
>> Ksh 20 per SMS. If this is not a rip off, then I don't know the definition,
>> coming as it does at a time when the ministry is reeling from a theft
>> scandal.
>>
>> One wonders what else the ministry could be hiding. While announcing the
>> top candidates, Ongeri never mentioned the names of their schools. But it is
>> anyone's guess that majority of them are from private schools. Rather than
>> bash the media as he did during the release of the results, Ongeri should
>> tell us what is bedevilling FPE.
>>
>> Can someone please help? MY daughter has refused to take lunch until she
>> gets her results.
>>
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