Twitter Vote Report Goes to India
Posted by Allison Fine on April 13, 2009
The month long elections in India begin on April 16th, and Twitter Vote Report will be there for the ride! Here is the skinny on Vote Report India from Jon Pincus:
Vote Report India will partner with citizens’ networks, human rights organizations, and journalists to contribute direct SMS, email and web reports on violations of the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct (PDF). It will then aggregate these direct reports with news reports, blog posts, photos, videos and tweets related to the elections from all relevant sources, in one place, on an interactive map. The interactive map will allow tracking the irregularities in the campaigns leading up to the elections, the voting experience on the day of the elections, and the results themselves.
At one level, Vote Report India will serve as a critical initiative aimed at nurturing transparency and accountability in the Indian election process. At another level, the platform will provide the most complete picture of public opinion in India during the elections.
“Vote Report India is powered by two path-breaking non-profit open-source projects — Ushahidi and SwiftRiver — and managed by eMoksha. Ushahidi is an award-winning platform that crowd-sources crisis information. SwiftRiver is a platform that makes sense of multiple sources of information in a fast-changing crisis situation. eMoksha is a non-profit organization that aims to enable stronger democracies through increased citizen awareness and engagement.”
The amazing life of Vote Report continues!
4 Responses to “Twitter Vote Report Goes to India”
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Gaurav Mishra said
Dear Allison,
Thank you for mentioning Vote Report India.
Can I request you to link to the main website at http://www.votereport.in instead of the project wiki at http://www.votereportindia.pbwiki.com?
Thank you.
Gaurav Mishra
Allison Fine said
Thanks for your note, Gaurav. I made the change to the link. The site looks great, good luck!!
Allison
giridhar Rao said
Oops. The link to Vote Report India now reads http://http//www.votereport.in/
Please change that to http://www.votereport.in/
Thanks!
Giridhar RAO
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