Dr. Ndemo, You are very right. I have worked on many government software projects and i know that many times providing unsolicited professional assistance or advice can land you in many problems due to mistrust. Even adding a nice-to-have feature to a software solution can give you worse problems. What i think we need to learn from this experience is that an institution within government needs to be mandated to lead quality assurance and IS audit process for all agencies. This "independent organisation/commission" mindset and attitude may lead to lots of problems due to omissions, inexperience and incompetence. Regards, Muthoni On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:15 AM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Edith, As Walubengo has said, working in Government is like trying to solve a giant jigsaw puzzle. Our new governance structures have made it even more complex. We have several independent organizations that literraly want to be independent from government. My interpretation of the constitution is that independent organizations are only functionally independent. If for example we had made an effort to have Muthoni's concerns addressed, we could have landed into problems with calls of interverance with an independent organization.
As I have always argued in this forum, we as people lack moral standards that are essential to mutual trust. We have spent fifty years since independence mistrusting one another. As we we begin the next fifty years, let us build a new Kenya where values and trust are the key connerstones of our development.
Ndemo.
Bwana Ndemo
The first article that Muthoni shared which exposed the failure of the system at demo stage asked very fundamental questions. Those questions must be answered as we try to unearth what happened.
in this day and age of cloud computing, why would you be talking of a server unable to cope? It seems hacking the system was not difficult from the layers described by Erik and managed by 4-5 different companies not under one management structure.
Finally, as an industry, we should have had more interest in interogating and auditing this system.
Edith ________________________________________ From: kictanet [kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.ca@lists.kictanet.or.ke] on behalf of dmakali@yahoo.com [dmakali@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:51 PM To: Edith Adera Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Has the ICT Sector Failed?
Daktari, we are not talking abt the human errors of the voting process. That was manual. Rather we are interested and reviewing what happened to the IT part of the exercise! The transmission of the results did not simply fail from overload or any technical hiccup. What exactly transpired that isaack is only referring to euphemistically as "technical challenges"?
Am sure you know that the system did not just malfunction but suffered frm manipulation. I stand to be correcyted but Can a system trigger itself to generate results and alter its data transmission logs? Lets just say all of us are being patriotic and acting in the national interest at this time but sm1 should not think we are fooled. The truth will sooner than later become apparent.
But i truly appreciate your contribution. - Makali
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David, A lot has been said in the social media trying to advance different theories of. Why the systems failed but what will matter are the final vote count. These were just provisional results that were to be verified before announcing the winner and were to be transmitted within a given time. Electronic results were to be like exit polls. There were human errors that should not have happened. Look at the number of spoilt votes. Can we say it was sabotage?
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Why is this being addressed as IT "failure" and not "sabotage"?. I would think failure is when a system "fails" to function according to its intended or programmed purpose and not when its "functioning" is interfered with so as to derail it from performing the set task.
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