From: Dan Stanley <[email protected]> Hi all
Just wanted to let you know about an event taking place in London next month. It's called the Free Elections Hackathon, and as the name suggests, its bringing together all the latest developments in how technology can contribute to free and fair elections around the world. At the moment we have two major projects: - Improvements and upgrades to OneWorld's amazing real-time election monitoring system, which they ran successfully in the recent Senegal Presidential elections. If you've not seen this system before, you should definitely check out the website here: http://www.senevote2012.com/, and watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fscuy2Tr_mE&feature=relmfu - Investigating how technologies such as mobile & cellular communication, crowd-sourced mapping, remote data plotting and covert data transfer can contribute to monitoring of the electoral process in countries where domestic and international observation is restricted. We'll be looking particularly at how to address the key issue of corroboration/verification, and running at least a couple of country specific workshops looking at practicalities - Zimbabwe and Iran look likely topics for those at present. Its taking place on Saturday 16th June, at the Centre for Creative Collaboration near King's Cross Station. The tickets are going to be released in about a week, but in the mean time I thought I'd let people on this list know about it, to see if anyone would like to be involved in the event, or had some suggestions about other groups or individuals who might want to be. Any ideas, questions, requests, email me at [email protected] Thanks Dan Small Axe
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