Thanks Gideon. Since we have an election coming up, would anyone be kind enough to share info on the current efforts being put in place by the tech community to monitor say voter registration, voting and the election results especially those that have a mapping or crowdsourcing element. Cheers Victor On 13 Dec 2012 09:05, "Gideon" <gideonrop@gmail.com> wrote:

Good to see the use of technology to monitor elections :

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/12/201212101152794146.html

And as Ory aptly puts it... "What we've seen recently - in Liberia and then with the election in Sierra Leone - are projects where people are finding ways to use SMS and plug into tools like Google Maps and Fusion Tables to help visualise data," she continued. "It's an interesting example of combining high tech and low tech."

Gideon Rop DotConnectAfrica

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