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 [...]
In what will be anticipation of victory as usual, the current Governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki, took to twitter to broadcast victory in the ongoing election as against the results. Immediately 10s of his followers retweeted and some tried to tell him the true result, he deleted the tweet. Incase you missed it, here [...]
As we countdown to the 2011 elections, Nigeria has continued to show its presence online. Today, the ruling party PDP is holding its presidential primaries in Abuja. While the votes were being counted, Nigerian on twitter are following the event and tweeting their comment about it. It’s good to note that, this once again as [...]
@eggheader (Odewale) a popular Nigerian on twitter has just got a new job from the newly confirmed Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Fayemi. Last Friday, Appeal court in Ilorin, Kwara state of Nigeria confirmed Dr. Fayemi as the winner of the 2007 and2009 run-off election in Ekiti state. @eggheader followed the court process from the [...]
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 [...]
Year 2011 elections will be the most anticipated election in the history of Nigeria, technology will also play a major role like never before. This weekend at the University of Lagos; Technology people and those interested in credible elections will gather to brainstorm on how to use technology to monitor the election. You don’t necessarily [...]
To commemorate Nigeria’s independent tomorrow, the country has launched an official website to tell the story of the country and engage the citizens! You can launch it Nigeriaat50.gov.ng On the site you can; Read Nigeria History View photos of past leaders View National Symbols Art & Culture Tourism The funny part of it is that [...]
Mr. President seem to have open up the space for political engagement via the internet, having opened is facebook page and declared his interest to contest the election on the Platform, other political figures are now following his footstep. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Governor of oil-rich Delta state in Nigeria has opened a page on Facebook, integrated [...]
