Countering information disorder in Nigerian elections
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Tasked to identify trends and actors fuelling information disorder ahead of the elections, the CDD West Africa team launched a social media chatbot, allowing users to directly report claims from their own social media channels. The submitted claims enabled the team to upload verified fact-checks, granting users real-time access to accurate information.
Hear more about this project in Aluko Ahmad (CDD West Africa)’s TICTeC 2025 presentation.
Redefined civic tech: community-centric impact stories from Georgia
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AskGov in Georgia, based on mySociety’s Alaveteli platform, hosts 1,118 datasets. What sets it apart is that the data does not remain confined to the platform: through contests, fellowship programmes and datathons, storytelling and data visualisation projects are distributed to a mass audience, with topics such as the environment, corruption, transparency, gender and occupation.
This TICTeC 2024 presentation by Vero Melua from ForSet shares more.
How to build a country-led election coalitions and combat misinformation online
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Megan Babakar (Google) shares the key findings from a six month research project involving interviews with fifteen global experts which culminated in the development of an election coalitions playbook. The research provides insights and identifies best practices from some of the most successful election coalitions from the past decade.The findings show there is no one-size-fits-all approach to creating an election coalition to combat misinformation during an election. But there are some common themes, questions, approaches, and ideas that all successful coalitions share.
Safeguarding elections and democracies
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Question and answer session for the following TICTeC 2024 presentations:
How to build a country-led election coalitions and combat misinformation online – Mevan Babakar (Google, UK)
Common civic tech needs across global contexts – Matt Stempeck (Civic Tech Field Guide, Portugal/US)
Empowering civic engagement: leveraging Ushahidi for transparent and inclusive electoral monitoring and governance – Rhoda Omenya (Ushahidi, Kenya)
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