by Mwendwa Kivuva | Aug 8, 2022 | 2022elections, Highlights, kictanet post
By John Walubengo. Ever since multiparty elections were sanctioned in 1992, Kenyans have always voted peacefully and gone home quietly. The election-related problems or violence that occasionally erupts arises from what happens AFTER polls close and not during or...
by Angela Minayo | Aug 3, 2022 | Access, Access to information, Highlights
An estimated 2.2% of Kenyans, which translates to 0.9 million people, live with some form of disability. Article 54 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 guarantees all persons with disabilities (PwDs) the right to reasonable access to information. Kenya has also signed...
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 Mwendwa Kivuva | Jul 28, 2022 | Cyber Security, Highlights, kictanet post
By Grace Githaiga, Convenor, KICTANet, 27 July 2022. Statement by KICTANet during the Third Substantive Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Security of and in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies 2021-2025, UN Headquarters, New York. Mr Chair,...
by David Indeje | Jul 25, 2022 | 2022elections, Access to information, Highlights, kictanet post
On Monday, (July 25, 2022), representatives from the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) Observer Group met with members of the European Union Election Observer Mission (the EU EOM). During the meeting, the teams discussed their roles in the upcoming general election...
