Hi, I thought I'd let everybody know that I'm currently at the Oxford Internet Institute for a 6-week research fellowship on election reforms (automated or otherwise). I'm coming back to Manila June 4 and would be glad to share the results of my research, after I've written it all up, with any interested individual or group.
Regards to all, Obet Verzola Original Message: ----------------- From: manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 00:57:32 +0800 (PHT) To: [email protected] Subject: [plug] Making Elections Open and Transparent Making Elections Open and Transparent May 15, 2008 http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/making-elections-open-and-transparent/ A group of concerned citizens called the Advocacy for Open Systems in Elections is offering a free, open source solution for automating the counting of election results. Ito Gruet, a member of the group, was interviewed by Erwin Oliva of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and the video of the interview is available on the Inquirer website as "Pushing open source solutions for elections". Gruet revealed that the group advocating the use of open standards and open source software for the automated election system, which would help ensure the transparency of the electoral process. Gruet explained: Basically it's to ensure that we are able to track and trace back to a source document and audit the results of the elections. And what we are proposing is the we make this process tranasparent to the public... to all the voters. Transparent in terms of the technology to be used, so we should be using open standards. We believe that the software should be open source so that people in the know can look at it, can review, and see if it's really a working system. Transparent in terms of the data itself, which means that results should be easily verifiable by the public, and anybody can do their own tabulation. Read the entire post at: http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/making-elections-open-and-transparent/ -- Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. -- Pope John Paul II --[Manny [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternative Information and Opinion at http://www.phnix.net Advocacy blog: http://mamador.wordpress.com Personal website: http://mannyamador.multiply.com --[Pro-Life Philippines]-------------------[http://www.prolife.org.ph]-- _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
