I just had the craziest thought, what if this project had been a Open
Source one? It seems that this technology in use is partially Open
Source (MySQL).
Q. Why can't this be done as a East African FOSS Project, surely
elections need to happen and be monitored here and elsewhere.
Politics aside we are a regional unit, do our various political election
methods differ so greatly that such a project would need much country by
country customisation?
Is FOSS not the ultimate form of transparency? If everyone has the code,
does that not lower the possibility of hacking? Especially if some unit
testing is done to make sure what is entered makes sense?
Would it not save money for us to all use the same system? Probably
could get funding for it from NDI or similar?
Simon
On 07/03/13 10:11, Ancel Bwire wrote:
am also investigating but will come up with some tips
**ANCEL OCHINO BWIRE
ACCOUNT/BRAND MANAGER
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:52 AM, G.Y. Mukalazi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
on paper it looks tight how then does it fail not on one location
but all, and Safaricome issues a statement distancing themselves
from the Failure of the system.
http://www.humanipo.com/news/4432/It-is-not-our-fault-Safaricom-says-of-failure-of-election-results-relay
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Ancel Bwire <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This is how the whole thing works at the
electral body There are 9 premises in the whole
interconnection
1. Bomas (Tallying Center)
2. HQ(Anniversary Towers)
3. Safaricom & Airtel
4. 47 Counties 5. 291 Constituencies( including Diaspora) 6.
Streams(Each Polling station had
streams, actual voting points)
7. DR site
8. Internet
9. IEBC Website The HQ, BOMAS, Safaricom & Airtel are
connected through P2P links of over 10MB.
Internet is provided by AccessKenya
through fiber link provided by JTL. AK also
has a redundant link through a Radio The Streams are connected
to the HQ via
Safaricom & Airtel Cloud through a VPN
(APN). At each stream is a Nokia Symbian
Run Phone with a Java Application that
transmits the poll results. The poll results
are multicast to Bomas, HQ, Constituency & County. At Each
constituency & county is a
laptop running the Result system and a
MYSQL DB. The same thing that runs at
BOMAS. The intention was to have the
results at all those locations at the same
time. BOMAS has a server running the application
& DB and so is the HQ & the DR site which
replicates the data. The API is provided
through the internet with google providing
the GIS/Mapping The IEBC website is hosted by Safaricom
cloud and is supposedly on a clustered DB Now there are rumors
on whether the
system was hacked on poorly coded. I cant
say for sure but the biggest challenge for
IEBC has been in distribution of phones,
simcards and configurations of the phones.
The main challenge for the system were logistical issues
rather than
technical. Technical challenges revolve around lack of
proper testing which again is brought
about by logistical issues(Imagine a mock
transmission for 33000 units and yet the
phones & simcards are still in the
warehouses or unprocured!). The other technical issue revolved
around
compilation of the register(Data). to be cont.....
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**ANCEL OCHINO BWIRE
ACCOUNT/BRAND MANAGER
DIGINITE
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