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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: gout on August 13, 2022, 11:03:08 AM
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They had plans to use their agents to declare baba president elect, the opening of servers by Chebukati was masterstroke. They never saw it coming.
I am one of those who initially advocated tallying at the polling station and building a system to audit the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s (IEBC) tally.
I also believed that the way to do this was to partner with organisations which had some capacity and experience in mass mobilisation and logistics.
But to achieve that, it required 92,458 agents, at least two for a polling station, for two days. This is quite expensive, but that is not the principal issue.
You need to build a bureaucracy to manage a group of more than 150 people; for 100,000, you need a humongous structure to ensure the productivity and integrity of the data coming into your system.
This is a costly business mainly done as a service without the expectation of much of a financial return.
It was assumed at the beginning that media houses would have to collect their own data; nobody expected IEBC to open the server, which it had promised numerous times in the past but never quite got round to doing.
Therefore, the cost of recruitment, training and deployment of agents was factored into the thinking. As it turned out, this was unnecessary.
Many of us were pleasantly surprised when IEBC provided a link—which actually worked. But we had invested our money in data collection agents and not data entry clerks.
Strangers at well guarded Nation Centre past midnight???
The teams were exhausted, the risk of errors was rising, we had strangers in the building in the middle of the night, the streets were dark and deserted, and there were probably only a few insomniacs following the count on TV and online.
Babbles about hacking picked from assmio bloggers.
Institutions have to protect themselves against physical attacks and hacking.
Two media organisations were reportedly hacked yesterday; one had its systems attacked and the other, apparently, had its data contaminated.
https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/opinion/mutuma-mathiu-hold-tight-professionals-in-control-3911866
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The idiot has killed Nation and is trying to rebuild the broken brand by distancing himself from State Capture.