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  • Eric Gundersen
    Jul 19, 2010
    3 comments
    ICT and Civic Engagement Strategies for the 2011 Nigeria Elections
    CSO meeting in Abuja, July 19th & 20th
    A host of civil society organizations gathered today in Abuja, Nigeria to share strategies and discuss tools for better monitoring the upcoming presidential elections (currently scheduled or January 2011). Against the backdrop of heavy...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Mar 3, 2010
    Discussing Information Flows During Election Observations
    Citizen Technology and Election Accountability Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
    National Democratic Institute's conference on Citizen Technology and Election Accountability here in Nairobi just wrapped up. The two days brought together election experts and technologists from all over the region. Much of our discussions focused...
  • Robert Soden
    Feb 22, 2010
    10 comments
    Integrating SlingshotSMS with Managing News
    Lightweight systems for data collection meet powerful tools for analytics
    We can now dynamically map and visualize real time SMS messages in Managing News using the new SlingshotSMS feature. All the code is available on github. This release is particularly exciting for us because it ties together two of our core projects...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Dec 17, 2009
    7 comments
    Opening Afghanistan's Election Data: An Open Source Data Browser
    Managing News as a rich data browser for monitoring and evaluation
    This morning the National Democratic Institute opened up their Afghanistan election data browser to the public. This is a massive liberalization of election data that previously had been baked into PDFs. The tool allows users to browse the raw vote...
  • AJ Ashton
    Nov 2, 2009
    1 comment
    Terrain Mapping in Afghanistan: Summer in Kabul
    Topography matters when visualizing data in Afghanistan
    Topography has a huge effect on the infrastructure of a country, and visualizing terrain data provides interesting insight into the formation of cities, roads, and districts. For Afghanistan in particular, it helps emphasize the difficulties of...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Aug 20, 2008
    5 comments
    Demo of Two Way SMS Gateway on a USB Stick with Drupal Integration
    New Open Source Tools Will Make Decentralized Data Collection More Effective
    The release of the SMS Framework 1.0, along with the road map for a 1.1 version, is making Drupal a more attractive platform for organizations that need powerful, decentralized data collection tools. This recent work shows that using Drupal can give...