by David Indeje | Dec 12, 2022 | 2022elections, Election laws, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo The Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) organized and hosted its Annual Jurists Conference (AJC) 2022 on the theme, “Reflections on Electoral Democracy in Africa: Trends in Judicial Decisions, Challenges, and...
by David Indeje | Sep 1, 2022 | 2022elections, Election laws, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo The ongoing 2022 Presidential petition has convinced me that, going forward, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commission would greatly benefit if one of its commissioners was an ICT professional. Unlike legal and accounting...
by Mwendwa Kivuva | Aug 2, 2022 | 2022elections, Election laws, Highlights, kictanet post
By Walubengo John. Last week we discussed the issue of manual vs digital registers with regard to voter identification. Whereas this issue has been widely covered in the media, there is very little coverage and discussion around the results transmission system (RTS)...
by Mwendwa Kivuva | Jul 28, 2022 | 2022elections, Election laws, Highlights, kictanet post
By Walubengo John. We had this debate five years ago in 2017 and the protagonists took different sides. Thanks to the short memories of Kenyans, politicians can without blinking an eye take different positions depending on the day’s weather – without expecting...
by Liz Orembo | Jul 20, 2022 | 2022elections, Access to information, Cyber Security, Election laws, Highlights, kictanet post
Written by Liz Orembo and Grace Githaiga There is a lot of strange information going around the country, and this has been happening for a while. During the Kenya Internet Governance Forum (IGF) week, the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) in partnership with the...
by Liz Orembo | Jul 18, 2022 | 2022elections, Access to information, Cyber Security, Election laws, Highlights, kictanet post
On 12th June, the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) paid a courtesy call to Kenya’s elections management body, the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The aim of this meeting was to discuss the role of technology in the upcoming elections...