LAM-TECH Consulting Enterprises Open Election Data (OED), Electoral Violence Education and Resolution (EVER) Platform OED-EVER Platform LAMTECH.SL Version 0.3 | Wednesday, 3 rd , December 2018
Introduction • What is elec elector oral al vi violence ce ? the use, threat to use and/or the encouragement to use force by any party, individual or group, outside the boundaries of the laws, • rules and regulations, for electoral purposes.” • How to pr prevent elec elector oral al vi violence ce ? Learn about the types of violence, the perpetrators, the victims, the impacts, the locations and educate the electorate and prepare • and deploy security forces appropriately • How to mo monitor and and rep eport on n el elect ectoral al vi violence ce? Use software, citizen generated data, dedicated teams deployed in the field to monitor media reports, verify, approve and publish • location-based incident reports submitted by the public • How to op open en elec election ion data? Work with a team that understands open data principles • use innovative open source software • follow the nine principles of open election data to collect, aggregate, visualize and share election data • • How to conduct fr free, f , fair, s , safe, s , secure a and tra transpa parent t electi tions? Private Sector and public sector working together • An open source crowdsourcing platform to enable the collection and sharing of location-based electoral violence incident • reports An open data platform to enable data collection, data aggregation, data visualization and data sharing • LAMTECH.SL
Background • Free, fair, safe, secure and transparent elections are the foundation of democracy and essential to the credibility of an incoming government • Leadership attained via controversial or contested election results leads to citizens’ lack of confidence in a new government • The first parliamentary and presidential elections in Sierra Leone were held in 1924, and 1985, respectively. • Today, we have Presidential, Parliamentary, Council and Mayoral elections in Sierra Leone. All were held on the same day in 2012, and all will be held on the same day, on March 7, 2018. • There is a need for public sector and private sector to work together using technology tools that will enable national election bodies, election observers, journalists, researchers and the general public to effectively and efficiently collect aggregate, visualize and share electoral violence incidents and election data LAMTECH.SL
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What is Open Election Data Platform (OEDP)? • OEDP is an open source open election data platform to facilitate free, fair, safe, secured and transparent elections. • The platform enables data collection, data aggregation, data visualization, and data sharing of election results, candidate profiles, boundary delimitations, polling stations, voter registration centers, political party information, electoral news articles, electoral education materials and political violence incident reports in accordance with global open election data principles • The platform’s sub-system Electoral Violence Education and Reporting (EVER) database system is a crowd sourcing application that enables thousands of users across the country to send location based political violence incident reports via SMS, Twitter, Facebook, email, mobile app and web application. LAMTECH.SL
What is Open Election Data Platform (OEDP)? • The platform gives researchers, journalists, data gurus, civil society, political campaigns and the general public access to historical election data in hum human n and nd machi hine ne-re readable formats for presidential, parliamentary, mayoral, district chairperson, local council, and village headman elections in Sierra Leone. • Election bodies like NEC and NEW, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) like The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Office of National Security (ONS), The Sierra Leone Police Force (SLPF), The Ministry of Information and Communications, the Right to Access Information, the Open Government Initiative (OGI), and many more will benefit from this tool. • The Data collected, aggregated and shared by this tool can be used to enhance the work of the above MDAs, researchers, Civil Society Groups and NGOs. • The main platform is currently available at https://electiondata.io with demo data from Sierra Leone • The Sierra Leone instance of the platform is available at https://elections.sl with historical data covering 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2012 elections. LAMTECH.SL
Main Objective Provide an open source and open data web-based tool to collect, aggregate, visualize and share electoral violence incident data, historic and current election data in a manner that is; Permanently- analyzable available available-for- complete- free on the and-in-bulk internet granular non- timely proprietary Non- License-free discriminatory Source: https://www.openelectiondata.net/en/guide/principles/ LAMTECH.SL
Why Sierra Leone OEDP? • To complement the work of current election bodies and security organizations in the Sierra Leone • To prevent electoral violence through monitoring and reporting • To ensure 2018 general elections are conducted in a free, fair, safe, secure and transparent manner by opening election data to the public following the nine principles of open election data • To avoid fake news and instead breaking the news from the official sources • To enable the Government, Political Parties, Researchers, Journalist, NGOs, Civil Society, the general public use open election data LAMTECH.SL
Why Sierra Leone OEDP? LAMTECH.SL
Why Sierra Leone OEDP? LAMTECH.SL
Implementation Strategy Offer the platform’s source code and technical support to the people of Sierra Leone free o charge • Partner with key election bodies to implement the platform during the 2018 general elections • LAM-TECH will continue to manage the technology aspects and cost of the base platform at no additional cost to the country • LAM-TECH will work with major election bodies like NEC and NEW to enable their monitors and observers use the platform to • publish election results in near real-time for the 2018 general elections To effectively make use of the platform and publish election results in near real-time, LAM-TECH is recommending a total of 12,405 • volunteers; 11,799 polling station data coordinators • 446 ward data coordinators • 132 constituency data coordinators • 16 district data coordinators • 5 regional data coordinators • 1 national data coordinator • 1 platform/product/project manager, and • 5 platform technical support engineers. • LAMTECH.SL
Real-Time Election Results Data Flow Manual & Automated Tallying of National Results National Data Coordinator Create, Review and Publish moderation steps Manual & Automated Tallying of Regional Results North South West North-West East Data Regional Regional Regional Regional Create, Review and Publish moderation steps Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Manual & Automated Tallying of District Results Kailahun Kenema Bombali Western Area Karene Kono Data Nth Data Bo Data Nth Data Nth Data Nth Data Data Data Data Urban Data Data Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Create, Review and Publish moderation steps Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Manual & Automated Tallying of Constituency Results Const. 1 Const. 2 Const. Nth Const. 78 Const. Nth Const. 63 Const. Nth Create, Review and Publish moderation steps Manual & Automated Tallying of Ward Results Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Ward 4 Ward Nth Ward 281 Ward Nth Ward 212 Create, Review and Publish moderation steps Polling Polling Polling Manual Tallying of Polling Station Results Polling Polling Polling Station Station Station Station Nth Station Nth Station Nth Create, Review and Publish moderation steps 01001 01002 01003 LAMTECH.SL
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