Tuesday, June 22, 2010

[Guinean news] You can be a monitor for Guinea's election... without leaving your home

Our colleagues at Alliance Guinea have launched a 'high-tech election monitoring system' in support of this Sunday's presidential election in the country.

The system, GV10 Witness (or GV10 Temoin, in French), will allow Guineans on the ground to report violence, threats of violence, fraud and other serious incidents via SMS, email and Twitter.

The messages will then be posted to the website www.GV10Temoin.org on a map of Guinea, organized by incident location and type of incident or report. People monitoring the elections – whether election administrators and observers, international media, civil society organizations or the general public – will then be able to follow developments on the site or through email updates.

This effort will require volunteers to process the information. If you'd like to help, please click here for more information.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I thought some readers might be interested in this take on the Guinea elections, which gives a lot of attention to Cellou Dalein Diallo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-amsterdam/a-hopeful-election-in-gui_b_621494.html