Back in October 16th 2010, we had a meetup to discuss how we could use technology to bring about transparent and credible elections in Nigeria. Creative ideas were brought to fore and people actually went ahead to work on the it. The result; ReVoDa! A mobile app that helps to people report situations in [...]
It is no joke that Nigerians on twitter are quite a number as the main man, Jega in the ongoing elections currently trends on twitter. This was made possible by his announcement of cancellation of the ongoing elections owing to logistic issues. There have been praises and knocks from various quarters and Nigerian twitterers in [...]
The election is running pretty close and Technology is there just waiting to be explored, Oo (Osita Nwoye), an outspoken advocate of New Nigeria and a tech entrepreneur along with other geeks, Â Namzo and Ope, jointly launched a new web app that help people choose a presidential candidate and make it public.This they expect will [...]
It is happening live, Nigerians are being given opportunity to hear what their presidential aspirants have in stock for them and why they should earn their votes. The major disappointment is that the president himself is absent from the debate. Watch below: Live TV by Ustream
In our continuous effort to bring about credible elections this year, we will be holding another forum to discuss issues affecting INEC in the current registration exercise and ways to help them. We will also be discussing avenues to get more people registered! Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011 Time: 9:00am Networking + 10am Start Venue: [...]
All is set for this weekend’s Tech meetup for 2011 elections. The task; to jointly brainstorm on how to use technology for the coming elections, with a focus on strategy and action. There will be no presentations, this is an open format style moderation. We will also engage online participants as the event goes on [...]
I got an interesting message in my Facebook inbox recently from a News group about plans by INEC to use Open source Google software in the upcoming general elections next year, suggesting this was a way of paying Google back for their investment in IT infrastructure in Nigerian universities. The message is displayed below: Nigeria [...]
