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Kenya’s electoral body faces a race against time to put in place an electronic voter registration system after cancelling a Sh3.9 billion tender on the back of intense public scrutiny.

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is boxed into a corner with elections just seven months away and the spectre of a return to the much-faulted manual voter registration, blamed for the rigging that marred the ill-fated 2007 polls

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Addis Ababa, July 12 (WIC) - The House of People’s Representatives (HPR) yesterday approved the draft Proclamation on Telecom Fraud Offences as Proclamation 761/2012.

The draft legislation had been referred to the Science, Communication and Technology Standing Committee of the House on May 24, 2012 for further consideration. 

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In recent years, a diverse coalition of actors has pushed the creation and diffusion of open data programmes around the world. Governments, international organizations, businesses, academics, media, civil society  organizations, and web developers have embraced and sponsored open data programs, creating large expectations for open data as a suitable remedy for challenges of good governance, economic growth, social inclusion, innovation, and participation.

Though in many cases this…