Hey All, The question lies here, why did we not do anything this time around, apologies next time is not good enough... Best Regards, Baiju Shah Managing Partner|Telemedia Africa Ltd Suite 12|Chaka Court | Argwings Kodek Road, P.O. Box 14556-00100, Nairobi, Kenya. T: +254 737 751409 | M: +254 787332247 E: baiju@tele2media.com On 31 Mar 2013, at 12:00, kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote:

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1. Re: Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general election of 2013 (Warigia Bowman)

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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:07:20 -0500 From: Warigia Bowman <warigia@gmail.com> To: Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general election of 2013 Message-ID: <CACeY99QbjXqkSu4nt0T8iodgDFqJ8p+=cA+=x5jQ7CXkW_cMjA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Dear Dick and Brian

I think that Kictanet has a real opportunity to make sure that we do better next time. Can we work out an agenda to plan for this?

Yours, Warigia

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi@ke.airtel.com>wrote:

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Now that we have a court decision that clears the matter of the presidency, perhaps it is now time to remove the emotions of the decision, turn away from politics and get down to the core issues in real institutional management and those surrounding the processes and the people around the IEBC lest we sit back and get through another four years and put together another unit in the last year of the 5 and go back to the same merry go round.

------------------------------ *From*: kictanet ** *To*: Dick Omondi *Cc*: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions ** *Sent*: Sat Mar 30 21:40:14 2013

*Subject*: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general election of 2013

Thank you Ali. I appreciate your comments. Shukran.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:

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Wariga

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the read. I want to however object to the words:-

'...the election results show that technology has failed them.'

I humbly submit that what failed us in this case is a mix of partisan politicking, a knack for jostling to see how each proponent could manipulate the process for their own benefit and lastly the failure of the IEBC leadership to accept and tell Kenyans to our faces that the most expensive technology ever bought for elections in Kenya (and Probably Africa) was designed to fail before it landed in the country.

I would replace the sentence '...the election results show that technology has failed them.' with the sentence

'...the election results show that *leadership* has failed them.'

The saving grace is that we have a sober Supreme Court and we thank God for them.

Ali Hussein CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd

+254 773/713 601113

"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Warigia Bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought you guys might enjoy this piece.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013329135519365308.html

Take a look, and tell me what you think. :-)

Warigia

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