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1 | Israel: Israeli Startup Falsely Accused of Rigging Zimbabwe's Elections | Isiraely : Orinasa isiraeliana mivoatra endrikendrehina fa mangala-bato any Zimbabwe |
2 | On Friday, March 28th, an online newspaper called “Zimbabwe Online” published an article accusing Cogniview, an Israeli startup company, of helping Robert Mugabe rig the Zimbabwean elections. | Tamin'ny Zoma 28 marsa dia nisy gazetinkala antsoina hoe “Zimbabwe Online” (Zimbaboe eo ampifandraisana) namoaka lahatsoratra namoaka lahatsoratra miampanga ny Cogniview, orinasa an-dalam-pivoarana Israeliana, ho manampy an'i Robert Mugabe hangala-bato. |
3 | Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, told journalists in Harare that Cogniview was offering technical support and that “Mugabe and his cronies intend to steal this election through the use of sophisticated software provided by the Israeli company with Mossad (Israeli intelligence agency) connections.” | Nolazain'i Tendai Biti, sekretera jeneralin'ny Antoko Hetsika ho amin'ny Fiovana Demokratika (MDC) tamin'ny mpanao gazety tao Harare fa nanampy ara-teknika ny Cogniview ary ‘mikasa ny hangalabato amin'ny alalan'ny rindrambaiko be angesony (sarotra be) natolotry ny orinasa manam-pifandraisana amin'ny Mossad (sampam-pitsikilovana Isiraeliana) ry Mugabe sy ny tariny.” |
4 | A lengthy response was published on Cogniview's blog, denouncing the story as blatantly false, and proposing a possible scenario of how their Open Source PDF converter was linked to Zimbabwe's elections. | Nisy valinkafatra lavabe nivoaka ary tao amin'ny bolongan'ny Cogniview, miampanga ny tantara ho lainga mahamenatra loatra, ary novisavisainy tao ny mety ho nahatonga ny mpanova ho PDF ho tafiditra amin'ity raharaha-pifidianana any Zimbaboe ity. |
5 | Below are two excerpts from Yoav Ezer's response, From Programmer to Puppet-Master: How I didn't Rig the Zimbabwean Elections with a PDF Converter: | Ireo ambany ireo ny sombin-dahatsoratra roa avy amin'ny valinkafatry Yoav Ezer, Avy amin'ny mpampiditra rindra(-mbaiko) ho an'ny Saribakolin'ny Tompony: Ahoana ny tsy ahafahako mangala-batom-pifidianana amin'ny alalan'ny mpanova PDF: |
6 | The article continues to claim that my company has secret ties to the Israeli Mossad, and that the accusations came directly from the General Secretary of the MDC, Zimbabwe's largest opposition party. | Tohizan'ny lahatsoratra fa manana fifandraisana miafina amin'ny Mossad Isiraeliana ny orinasako, ary avy amin'ny Sekretera Jeneralin'ny MDC, antokoben'ny mpanohitra Zimbaboeana, mivantana mihitsy io fiampangana io. |
7 | Before I go on with the details of the story, here's my official response … this story is NOT TRUE. | Mialoha ny andehanako amin'ny antsipirian'ny tantara, dia izao aloha fanambarana ofisialy ataoko … TSY MARINA io tantara io. |
8 | In fact it could have only been more fictional if we were accused of using alien technology. | Aleo lazaina fa fantatra no hoforonina kokoa izy ity rehefa nampangaina ho mampiasa haitao tsy fanta-piaviana izahay. |
9 | Here are some more facts: | Indreto koa misy zava-bitsivitsy tokony holazaina: |
10 | * We have no ties with Robert Mugabe's party. | * Tsy manam-pifandraisana amin'ny antokon'i Robert Mugabe mihitsy izahay. |
11 | We have never met or dealt in any way with him or any of his people. | Tsy nihaona na nifampiraharaha taminy na tamin'ny olony na oviana na oviana izahay. |
12 | * We have no connections to the Israeli Mossad. * No Cogniview employee has ever been to Zimbabwe. | * Tsy manam-pifandraisana amin'ny Mossad Isiraeliana izahay * Tsy nisy mpiasan'ny Cogniview na dia iray aza efa nankany Zimbabwe. |
13 | He continues to write how he thinks his company got caught up in this story: | Nanohy nanoratra amin'izay eritreriny ho nahatonga ny orinasany ho tafiditra amin'ity tantara ity izy: |
14 | About a year ago we developed an Open-Source PDF converter called CC PDF converter. | Tokony ho herintaona izay dia nahavita Open-Source mpanova ho PDF antsoina hoe CC PDF converter izahay. |
15 | This converter (which is available for download for anyone that has an internet connection) allows one to convert anything printable into PDF. | Io Mpanova (izay azon'ny rehetra manana fifandraisana aterineto trohina) io dia mamadika izay rehetra azo avoaka printy ho PDF. |
16 | It also allows adding a Creative Commons license as the last page of the document. | Azo atao ihany koa ny manampy Creative Commons license any amin'ny faran'ny raki-kevitra. |
17 | And at the very end of this page there is a link to Cogniview's website. | Any amin'ny tena fiafaran'ny takelaka moa dia misy ny rohin'ny vohikalan'ny Cogniview. |
18 | I also learned (from the people that called to chastise us) that the voter-roles that were provided to the MDC by Zimbabwean officials were in PDF format and had a link to Cogniview's website. | Reko (avy amin'ireo nitsikera anay) fa ny lisitry ny mpifidy nomen'ny mpiasam-panjakana Zimbaboeana ho an'ny MDC dia vita rafitra PDF sady misy ny rohin'ny vohikalan'ny Cogniview. |
19 | My guess is that the people at the MDC wanted to get the voter data in a format they could easily handle (like Excel) and instead got it in a PDF file (that was produced by our converter). | Dia nieritreritra aho hoe rafitra mora kirakiraina (tahaka ny excel) angamba nonotadiavin'ny olon'ny MDC kanjo rakitra PDF (izay nataon'ny mpanova novokarinay) no azony. |
20 | They got (justifiably) angry and concocted a story about the Israeli Mossad and my company (this part isn't justifiable). | Nahatezitra azy ireo izany (azo ekena ho rariny io) ary dia nikonokonona tantara momba ny Mossad Isiraeliana sy ny orinasako avy eo (io farany io kosa no tsy rariny). |
21 | Thanks Denis for the link! | Isaorana i Denis tamin'ny rohy natorony! |