Uchaguzi 2022

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

Active

Kenya

Open source: Yes

These teams have been set up to help us process incoming reports during the election period Structuring: Responsible for converting posts from SMS, Email, and Twitter into the structure of existing surveys. Media Monitoring: Responsible for monitoring citizen reports via different social media streams, i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok, blogs, and Instagram, in turn, creating posts from them. Translation: Responsible for interpreting posts from local languages to English. Geolocation: Responsible for reviewing all posts for location information and mapping posts requiring geolocation. Publishing: Responsible for reviewing (ensuring correct structure and categorization) and publishing posts. Verification: Responsible for ascertaining the credibility of information received from users. Analysis and Research: Responsible for evaluating data within the platform and providing situation room reports. Technology: Responsible for supporting the maintenance of the Uchaguzi platform.