---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Warigia Bowman <warigia@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:43 AM Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general election of 2013 To: Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> Thanks Dennis, I appreciate your comments. I think that we should work as a Kictanet on this issue? can I post them? On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

Straight to the point and I like the inclusion of doubt of technology in the US. I think another issue here us that IEBC failed to have contingency plans in place(though we can argue that paper is a fall back plan - however, this was not expressly stated, that in case of technology failure, we would resort to paper).

From here, maybe I can suggest Dr. , is there a way technology can be made trustworthy for elections, such as maybe making procurement of systems open and also making the systems architecturally open for scrutiny.

I feel the mistrust comes from people not knowing what happens "in there" On Mar 29, 2013 11:40 PM, "Warigia Bowman" <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:

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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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