On 07/03/13 11:45, Ancel Bwire wrote:
1st let me state about the locations.if they are 9 then how can you
group counties and constituencies as the same?
Select queries? Group By Command?
2nd the world for almost the last 8years has been moving from MySQL
which I must say is quite old and easily hackable and to the more
reliable Oracle go ask any bank that runs their DB on MySQL so why an
election system for 2013?
Horses for courses. I think MariaDB might have been a better choice, but
as Oracle owns MySQL they might be running the Enterprise version with a
support agreements?
3rd fiber optic cables can handle 30million users per second and am
sure an ISP can ensure that during election traffic on their network
to be less
Having had experience of PSP's during our last election I'd have to say
not really. Teleco's don't build their networks to handle Peak traffic
but median. 3G has awful QOS, so if the traffic gets to high I'd imagine
you would have problems. However testing and good knowledge would have
identified this.
,4th which VPN can handle more than two users at the same time
remember systems security public key private key only 2users per session.
Seriously? Most VPN systems can handle more than two users. Even PPTP
can handle 256 by default. If you mean a site-site VPN link, I have
set-up a 4 way mesh site to site VPN, which is running today. Also you
should have one key per link.
Infact the only part I agree so far is the API for Google since am a
member for the Ugandan chapter and also cloud technology which even
APPLE,mICROSOFT OFFER SIMILAR
Actually the one part you could have done with FOSS i.e. OSM.
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Simon Vass <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Paul,
Unfortunately all too true, but I always live in hope that someone
is lurking who can get this in front of a IT savvey Politician.
Simon
On 07/03/13 11:08, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
Laudable thoughts, but this is all about politics. That's how the
got into the mess. As somebody has pointed out, for the money
they spent, and I don't think they are short of clever people,
they shouldn't have been in this mess. You solve this in the
political realm. Judging by the results flow this morning, my
feeling is they are on top of it. Reasons are complicated and
non-IT...
On Mar 07, 2013, at 10:18, Simon Vass <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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
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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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