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OneWorld Team Organising the BissauVote.com Situation Room
As Guinea Bissau held historic elections to restore democracy in early 2014, OneWorld and GOSCE (the Group of Civil Society Organisations for the Elections) organised a real-time citizen monitoring effort to support the democratic process.
Some 400 specially trained "citizen monitors" reported on what was happening in their neighbourhoods by sending coded SMS messages to a "Situation Room" set up by OneWorld in the capital, Bissau.
The monitors were reporting from campaign rallies, civic education activities, and monitoring media coverage of the campaign during the pre-electoral period. On Election Day they were reporting on the general climate around polling stations and looking out for acts of violence, suspected fraud or corruption, and any interruptions of the voting process.
All the information was decoded, verified automatically and published online at www.bissauvote.com.
OneWorld Team Organising the BissauVote.com Situation Room
As Guinea Bissau held historic elections to restore democracy in early 2014, OneWorld and GOSCE (the Group of Civil Society Organisations for the Elections) organised a real-time citizen monitoring effort to support the democratic process.
Some 400 specially trained "citizen monitors" reported on what was happening in their neighbourhoods by sending coded SMS messages to a "Situation Room" set up by OneWorld in the capital, Bissau.
The monitors were reporting from campaign rallies, civic education activities, and monitoring media coverage of the campaign during the pre-electoral period. On Election Day they were reporting on the general climate around polling stations and looking out for acts of violence, suspected fraud or corruption, and any interruptions of the voting process.
All the information was decoded, verified automatically and published online at www.bissauvote.com.