Q) What is Vote Report India?
A) Vote Report India (votereport.in) is a collaborative citizen-driven election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections.
Q) Who is behind Vote Report India?
A) Vote Report India is a non-partisan all-volunteer collaboration between software developers, designers, academics, and other professionals to bring transparency to the 2009 Indian elections. See the profiles of the core team members here.
Q) What is the technology behind the Vote Report India platform?
Vote Report India is powered by several path-breaking non-profit open-source projects -- Ushahidi and Swift, based on Twitter Vote Report -- and managed by eMoksha. Ushahidi is an award-winning platform that crowd-sources crisis information. Swift is a platform that makes sense of multiple sources of information in a fast-changing crisis situation. eMoksha is a non-profit organization that aims to enable stronger democracies through increased citizen awareness and engagement.
Q) How do you make money?
We don't.
Q) When will Vote Report India go live?
In terms of timeline, here is what we are working towards --
- Working website with basic Ushahidi implementation & new header at votereport.in (4/5)
- Reskinned website (4/7)
- Soft Launch with blog post (4/7)
- Vote Report integration, thus commencing the hacking of Vote Report into Swift (4/9)
- Tested beta version (4/12)
- Hindi version (4/12)
- Formal launch with press release (4/13 morning India time)
Q) How can I help?
A) We can use as much help as we can get, so feel free to volunteer.
You can begin by joining the Vote Report India community --
Website: Vote Report India
Twitter: @votereportindia (hashtag: #votereport)
Google Group
Facebook Group
Orkut Community
SMSGupShup Group
Volunteer opportunities are available in many areas. Please contact the leads within each area.
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