Sunday, May 9, 2010

Twittering African Elections

African Elections Project (AEP) www.africanelections.org uses social media and new media tools to develop capacity and to monitor the governance process prior to, during and after the election. One of such myriad of tools is the use of micro blogging using twitter in a number of ways:
• Connecting with stakeholders such as politicians, political parties, elections observers and monitors, electoral management bodies, citizens and Civil Society
• Publishing SMS from our journalists and citizens journalist to a greater audience via twitter
• Using twitter in our elections news production and dissemination process
• Publishing pictures from the field via http://twitpic.com/photos/togoelections
• Using twitter to send out alerts from our Early warning system
• Publishing media monitoring output to twitter
• Dissemination of elections results from polling stations
@africanelection African Elections Project affiliates: (twittering elections in English, French and Portuguese)

African Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/Africanelection

Togo Elections http://twitter.com/togoelections

Ghana Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/ghanaelections

Mozambique Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/mozambiquevotos

Namibia Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/namibiaelection

Botswana Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/botswanaelects

Cote D'Ivoire Elections http://twitter.com/cotedivoirevote

Mauritania Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/mauritaniavoix

Guinea Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/guineaelections

Malawi Elections Twitter http://twitter.com/malawivotes2009

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