Nigeria elections dot org

nigeriaelections.org was designed to serve as a one-stop-shop on all things pertaining to the 2015 elections; an enterprise grade IT platform mirroring the official INEC website as well as providing bespoke tools for participating member Civil Service Organisations (CSOs), while providing critical voter education information for voters and the various publics at large.

It was designed to promote electoral transparency by providing the voting public with the tools and information to get involved, secure their mandate and to strengthen the capacity and influence of CSOs and the media: the project also provided a critical knowledge base for the media to use in its reportage of the elections.

A.Create an election-focused, virtual community with a decentralised sense of ownership, but designed to provide specific tools for direction and action on the elections. This new design (the old is not viable for mobile viewing nor on low bandwidths, which are how most people in Nigeria access the internet) will necessarily target new social media networks and constituencies who want to be involved in the election processes leading up to general elections in (mid-February) 2015. It will provide tools and information about:

i. How to get involved

ii. List of voters matched with updated Polling Units (this is critical since INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) will according to reports add new polling stations and units)

iii. A compendium of voter education materials, including virtual ballot papers

iv. List of useful contacts

v. Voter and results tracker

B. Provide technology upgrade (improved backend architecture, hardware and cloud based services, storage APIs renewal and secure backup servers to the existing nigeriaelections.org)

C.Optimize nigeriaelections.org for mobile phones because of the increased demand and use of mobile phones [131 million+ mobile phones in use in Nigeria, 35.42 million are smartphones, 100.02 million are SMS enabled].