Election Monitoring

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Comment by BARNABO NAMPOUKIME DONAM on April 9, 2013 at 7:34am

There is going to take place, legislative elections in TOGO, i will be honoured to learn how to use the platfrom others used in their countries, and that was successfull

Comment by Egghead ODEWALE on November 14, 2012 at 2:36pm

Sure Libby. My Tom can mail me at oodewale[at]cyber[dot]law[dot]harvard[dot]edu and I'd be more than willing to make introductions with the coordinator of the local - SaloneVote - observation coalition. You can see more about the One World group at www.oneworldgroup.org

Comment by Libby Powell on November 14, 2012 at 2:14pm

Hi all, this is really helpful, thank you so much for your time and input. I have set up a basic map (i think!) here: https://onourradar.crowdmap.com

But very interest in your links Egghead ODEWALE. Do you have a contact with salonevote as perhaps our network could support/supplement their map too. We have several polling agents, incl disabled polling agents, blogging/reporting in lead up to Sat and beyond. All 45 reporters have been trained and are aware of principles of verifiable, actionable reporting. Also can't find any link to the OneWork site so any further info would be ideal. We are REALLY keen to contribute rather than duplicate.

Tom, I will follow up with email.

Libby

Comment by Egghead ODEWALE on November 14, 2012 at 2:06pm

Hi Libby, I am aware that a group of young folks under the umbrella of a coalition will be observing SL's election on Saturday but I am not sure they're using the Ushahidi platform. Rather, they have adopted the UK-based OneWork platform for the purpose. I have sent out a mail to the coordinator to inquire weather this is being integrated with FrontlineSMS to which I am yet to get a response. You can check our the crowdsourcing site - http://www.salonevote.com - and let me know if you need additional information with respect to the Saturday's election.

Comment by Tom Marentette on November 14, 2012 at 8:45am

Hi Hapee,

Thanks for your thoughts, of which I completely agree. The tech piece is easy, it's the program design that is more difficult and time consuming. I forget where I've heard this (Wayan Vota maybe), but it's the 90-10 rule...tech is only 10% of any intervention.

Wondering if any other groups already have Ushahidi deployment plans for the Sierra Leone elections, that Libby's group could assist with. thanks again for your insights.

Comment by Hapee de Groot on November 14, 2012 at 1:46am

Hi Libby and Tom,
I know quite a bit of election monitoring using tools like Ushahidi (including FrontlineSMS) and I know that the technical part is the most easy one. You mention elections on Sat? do you mean this Sat? cause you/we can run the platform by than but a sms shortcode? and you need the crowd to sms and report, how do they know of the existence of the site or shortcode or hashtag? with election monitoring the technical part is the less important, the most important aspect is the marketing of the installation and for that you need more time than 3 days.

Comment by Tom Marentette on November 13, 2012 at 4:07pm

Hi Libby, I don't have any experience in election monitoring, but I may be able to help advise you about using FrontlineSMS and Crowdmap (Ushahidi) for the elections. Please email me at tmarente (at) gmail (dot) com. all the best.

Comment by Libby Powell on November 13, 2012 at 1:51pm

Firstly, is anyone planning to use Frontline SMS and/or Ushahidi for the Sierra Leone elections on Sat??

Secondly, we are a small and very new media dev org and would really appreciate chatting with someone who has experience using both for election mapping. Does anyone have time to advise us?

Comment by Florence Scialom on March 14, 2012 at 9:37am

Hi James,

Great to hear from you! Thanks for the update on your work here; sounds like you are involved in some very valuable projects. I hope you have got up and running with FrontlineSMS ok, but if you have any questions on this please feel free to ask.

You may be interested in this recently released guide which shows how to use FrontlineSMS with Ushahidi. This could be helpful for any users with election monitoring plans.

Anyway, thanks again for posting and do stay in touch \o/

All the Best

Flo

Comment by James Okon on March 13, 2012 at 11:33am

Edo state elections is coming up in June....i just hope Ushida team will consider coming....Our team in JulyCare is over 200 strong registered youths employed voluntary basis and ready to give assistance.

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