African Elections Project

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The African Elections Project :  your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent. (on the english Homepage).

Partners; Links; Countries: find most of them in the bottom line of each page;
Contacts online and some regional adresses.

About /Elections Project Scope (here after about West Africa): 

The West African Elections project is aimed at developing the capacity of the media in ICTs in order for them to use it as a tool for election coverage and the provision of elections information and knowledge  for  planned elections in Ghana, Cote d ‘lvoire, and Guinea from 2008 to 2009.

The sub levels of this project are :

  • Training for senior editors, journalists and reporters
  • Development and dissemination of Election Guide for the Media
  • SMS/Mobile application in election coverage and monitoring
  • Information and Knowledge Online Portal
  • Knowledge products for the media
  • Media Content Monitoring

The West African Elections Project is co-ordinated by the International Institute for ICT Journalism (PenPlusBytes PPB) working hand in hand with key partners and with funding from Open Society Initiative for West Africa (see here).