I got an email this morning from BBC inviting me to join their talk on today’s Have Your Say program is the Nigerian election. It’s on at 6pm GMT today, Monday April 23. They appear to be interested in hearing about how technology is being used, and my post last month on Blueprint for a Nigerian Civil Society Election Blog.
Seems since then alot has happened in that department – but perhaps not enough. I’m still digesting it all, and trying to get my head around the tragedy that is the election results filtering through. The greenlightnigeria.org blog was set up by SDN, and NMEM, a to me unknown group, used the Frontline SMS tool by Ken Banks to do some election monitoring by SMS. I don’t know yet how the SMS experiment worked out, but the greenlightnigeria.org blog has been very inspiring to monitor, with audio and video testimony posted just about daily for the last two weeks.
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The comment thread for the BBC Have Your Say program is an interesting read, but it is a pity that the BBC does not provide an audio file download or streaming audio for this program (and several others). Any chance that an audio file or podcast of the show exists somewhere on the Net so that others may listen?
Hello –
Sorry you haven’t been able to find an archive – I haven’t even looked for it yet. If I find it I’ll post the link here. It was interesting, but never got around to talking about technology so they never called me.
Here’s an interesting thread I commented on but which has not yet been approved (wow that’s a long approval process it seems) -
Can technology ensure a free vote?
Cheers,
Tobias
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