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:
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
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[mailto:kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] 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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