Hi Neema, Sounds interesting! I'm volunteering some of my time to help my friend Lori get "ipolitic" off the ground, a SF-based startup currently focused on the US and local/ballot elections but it already has a decent codebase and could be cloned for international use. Authentication sounds tricky, but it supports FB/Twitter auth which is at least one step towards legitimate identities.
Access is also a challenge but I'm helping Lori to develop the mobile version of ipolitic so a mobile web version may or may not lower (?) the barrier of entry. cc'ing Lori =) @Lori do you have a public pitch deck that you can share with the [email protected] mailing list? ~Leslie Wu On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Neema Moraveji <[email protected]> wrote: > Researchers, hackers, and students: > > There is a need in many countries, to support "extra-government > elections" with web-based technology (i.e., let citizens vote fairly > without government influence, extortion, etc.). I think this is a > valuable investment of time for a Libtech/HCI/CS/ICTD research > project. > > Imagine a site that allowed citizens to vote, could show the outside > world and governments themselves (which often have unreliable means of > voting/counting/etc.) how the citizens really feel about different > candidates - in a non-biased way. > > The research issues to solve: authentication, visualization, > accountability, and perhaps even access. Using common computer > components (keyboard, webcam, etc.) can such a system be delivered to > at least approximate the real sentiment of the people? At least to the > outside world? > > Does such a system already exist? > > I am in Iran right now connecting with young people and intellectuals. > I can't speak for other countries but Iran will have important > elections in 9 months. If even a prototype of such a system exists, > it could gain wide use here and be used by news agencies around the > world to broadcast the difference between govt and extra-govt voting > results. > > > All the best, > > Neema Moraveji, Ph.D. > Director > Calming Technology Lab > Media-X > Stanford University > moraveji.org, calmingtech.stanford.edu > @moraveji, @calmingtech > --++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== > hci-research mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hci-research > > _______________________________________________ > hci-gates3 mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hci-gates3 >
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