Hi All, Sorry, forgot to mention the date. Venue: 7th Floor, Paigah Plaza, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad Date:21/03/09 (Saturday) Time : 10.30am
Regards Chaitanya On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Chaitanya Ganesh <[email protected]>wrote: > 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!!!! > ======================. >
