Hi All, As part of National Election Watch, the affidavits of the contestants are being screened.
You can also be a part of it and be a part of the campaign aiming at reviving the politics of India. This is the first step and there is need of active participation from as many as possible. For details see the mail below. We are having a dry run of the data entry work that we will be undertaking during the General elections 2009. Venue: 7th Floor, Paigah Plaza, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad Time : 10.30am Thanks and Regards Chaitanya Dear all, As part of National Election Watch, we will be doing the affidavit analysis of all contesting candidates in the coming assembly and parliament elections. This will be followed by widespread dissemination of this data through print and electronic media, partner NGOs, website etc. We are expecting close to 3000 affidavits this time (1500 for each phase) and it will be huge task of data entry and dissemination. For each phase, the estimated timeframe of dataentry and analysis is about 3 days. A training for interested volunteers was organised on sunday (15th March, 2008). The following issues were discussed in the session, 1. Basics of how to read an affidavit 2. Data entry and introduction to the web based tool 3. Sample data entry for 2004 data and examples 4. Plan for the election time. Apart from those, we will also have a telugu and english version of the website that needs to be regularly updated. Volunteers interesting in the following are requested to attend the workshop. 1. Data entry and Quality check 2. Website in english and telugu (writing articles etc) 3. Creative posters for data dissemination Regards Rakesh Reddy Dubbudu BHUMI & National Election Watch - AP www.bhumi.in weblog: http://rakesh-will-do-it.blogspot.com/ +91 9885419012 There are only two options, Either 'you Change' or 'Change the system' I chose the second one!!!! ======================.
