Robert,
We must protect the privacy of Kenyans especially those who do not want
their mobile number in the public domain.  Attached see the sections of
the Communications Ammendment Act and the regulations.  It is brief and
you can read in one minute.


Ndemo.

Just to reiterate that mobile is the new mass media, it is shocking how no
one is actually raising an issue about IEBC's blatant waste of money,
exactly what is the objective of printing information about the pooling
stations in the newspaper?

IEBC has over the past few days been publishing in the former mass media
a.k.a. newspapers a list of the registered pooling stations, each run has
taken up over 12 full pages at 320,000/- per page that adds up to 3.84
million x 3 newspapers per day = 11.52 million and this has been going on
for 3 days = 34.56 million. 


This confirms that expenses fill the budget allocated in the same way as
work fills the time allocated, from this wasteful spending it is clear
that we would have had the same kind of election with a 10th of the budget
allocated.


Yet the same IEBC charges me 10/- to check the same information using
their SMS service, if this is the cost of democracy then we are doomed to
poverty. 

Regards


PS.  What exactly was the ICT strategy launch all about?

 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696


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To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 11:59
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Has IEBC Voter Register Been Compromised


+1 Robert


Ali
Hussein
CEO, 3mice interactive media ltd
Partner, Telemedia Africa Ltd

 
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:51 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

Hi Harry,

Not being a lawyer please indulge my ignorance, when you get an ID card
it is that the public can confirm who you say you are therefore it is not
a private but a public record.

When you register as a voter you are going to elect public office bearers
therefore your voter registration information is public information.

I hear you on the issue of getting targeted but which is the greater evil
the likelihood of you getting evicted or the likelihood of an election
being compromised?

My take is that the voter, SIM card, ID, passport, prison, land ownership
and motor vehicle information need to be made publicly available for
scrutiny by all and sundry with a means to monitor who has accessed the
data (IPv4).  All the data I have mentioned is available to a select few
which means that the

playing field is therefore uneven. 

With a select few having access to the data is more harmful especially
since there is no way of any of us knowing who they are or what is their
agenda. It truly pains me when a nation with such great minds at times
like this reduce themselves to rock painters.

In the run up to the last censors we ran what we called the "tribe Kenya"
campaign which resulted in the ministry of planning being forced to
define a new tribe called Kenya, whose code is 722, for those who wanted
to respond to the tribe question as "Kenya" and not other. In addition
the training materials for the enumerators where changed to indicated
that no one should be forced to provide a specific tribe and neither
where they to make any assumptions based on name.

After the results where released it was recorded that 612,000 households
across the country are members of the tribe "kenya".  If I had a way of
contacting this

fellow tribes men/women of mine then we would be in a better position to
plan our development and representation, which is one of the reasons that
I am an advocate of making this data public.

In closing, we keep questioning the results of the various opinion polls
done by a myriad of organisations with all of us raising issues on sample
distribution, ethnicity, gender and the like and more critically are they
registered voters.  This is a very simple issue to solve if the voter
register was publicly available and merged with the SIM register, all we
would ask you to do is respond to an electronic opinion poll using your
mobile phone.  The results could then be tallied and a comprehensive
report provided that would answer many of the current contentious issues.


Regards

 
Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi,

00200

Kenya


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696


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From: Harry Karanja <kkairo@gmail.com>
To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 6:35
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Has IEBC Voter Register Been Compromised



On interrogation of legislation I've actually found that the Kenya
Communication (Amendment) Act imposed stiff penalties for unauthorized
access of data. So whether it came from retail agents or telcos (which is
highly improbable) this MP is not supposed to have my data. I'd also
discount the idea of cell broadcasting - which to the best of my
knowledge had not been activated in Kenya for commercial use. The SMS
originated from a UK number.


What is indisputable is that the aspiring MP accessed my personal data
without authorization. The next challenge is who should be held
accountable and how do I do this?  As mentioned earlier, targeted
campaigning or marketing is only one use of this data - but what if
someone based on my surname surmises that I do not fit into the electoral
map, will there be another form of targeting to evict me from that
constituency? (Here lies the futility of SIM registration as these SMS
can easily be sent from UK or India)


The fears I have are real, for its happened before, and as most on this
list can attest, technology has the power to make this process more
efficient.

Regards, 
Harry Karanja


Sent from my iPad

On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Edith Adera <eadera@idrc.ca> wrote:


Harry,

 
Indeed the sources are many as others have said. Do we have a data
protection law (and FOI law) in place? Or the 10th parliament left
“hurriedly” without enacting it?
 
The scenarios of how an individual voter can be targeted are many and
scary, to say the least.
 
Edith
 
From:kictanet
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.ca@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf
Of Harry Karanja
Sent: February 10, 2013 10:44 PM
To: Edith Adera
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] Has IEBC Voter Register Been Compromised
 
Listers,
 
This morning I received the oddest message. Through a bulk sms provider,
one of the aspirants for MP in my constituency sent me an SMS appealing
me to vote for him in the upcoming elections? Now I say odd because to
the best of my knowledge I have never communicated to this politician my
number and my constituency. In fact the only person I have ever given
this dual information is the IEBC during voter registration. 
 
Which begs the question, could IEBC or its registration clerks be making
voter registers available to politicians for consideration or otherwise?
I'm also curious if this is an isolated event or its happening
elsewhere?
 
Now I don't need to emphasize on the very serious implications if
politicians are in possession of such specific data on the electorate. I
previously blogged
(http://www.startupkenya.info/2010/08/chopping-up-big-green-giant-safaricom.html) on
the dangers of telcos in possession of too much personal data, but it is
nothing compared to politicians with this data especially in a country
that has experienced deadly post election violence. 
 
I'm curious what measures IEBC has in place for the protection of our
personal information and if my experience this morning portends the
compromise of all future governmently held e-data?

Regards, 
Harry Karanja
 
Sent from my iPad

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