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Revoda Mobile Application By Emeka Okoye CEO Vikantti / Co-Founder Next2.us

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Agenda <ul><li>How a mobile application made a difference to the Nigerian 2011 elections </li></ul>

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Introducing

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Situation Analysis <ul><li>Nigeria ’ s elections have a history of manipulation </li></ul><ul><li>Unfortunately, voters are also disconnected from the process beyond voting in itself </li></ul><ul><li>Elections need to reflect the aggregate citizen preferences to be effective </li></ul><ul><li>Election results may be changed after they leave polling stations </li></ul>

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Background <ul><li>EIE launched the Register | Select | Vote | Protect (RSVP) Campaign which has become popular among the electorate in general. </li></ul><ul><li>Victor Miclovich created the Naija tech for election Google group (Sept. 2010). </li></ul><ul><li>EIE organised a Forum to discuss technology for Nigeria ’ s Election in (Oct. 2010). </li></ul>

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Background <ul><li>Mobile Web West Africa in Feb. 2011 </li></ul>

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Summary of the Mobile Space <ul><li>Touch screen is outselling QWERTY phones </li></ul><ul><li>Blackberry is growing among the youths </li></ul><ul><li>2.9m Nigerians on facebook with 55% connecting through their mobile phones </li></ul><ul><li>600k Nigerians on twitter with about 85% connecting through their mobile phones </li></ul><ul><li>60% of Nigerians are youths </li></ul><ul><li>Local Mobile apps have not attained inflection points </li></ul><ul><li>85% of mobile web users use dumb phones </li></ul>

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Summary of the Mobile Space <ul><li>Large population of Chinese knocks off and low-end phones </li></ul>

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The Challenge <ul><li>EiE Coalition want to potentially turn the 30m Nigerians with mobile phones, 20m with Internet access or 2,985,680 on Facebook into informal election observers </li></ul>

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What is ReVoDa? <ul><li>RE gistered VO ters DA tabase </li></ul>

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What is Revoda Mobile App? <ul><li>It ’ s a mobile application that allows citizens to monitor the electoral processes by citizens. </li></ul><ul><li>It was designed to allow citizens report incidents, results, violence/fraud, police behaviour, INEC staff conduct, etc, from their respective polling units – and from the comfort of their mobile phones. </li></ul><ul><li>ReVoDa turns eligible voters into informal election observers, and allows monitoring organizations to draw conclusions about the legitimacy and accuracy of the elections. </li></ul>

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Objectives <ul><li>Connect voters to the entire electoral process </li></ul><ul><li>Enable Parallel Vote Count (PVC) </li></ul><ul><li>Allow voters to collect results from their polling units </li></ul><ul><li>Collected results should be transmitted to a central location </li></ul><ul><li>Get additional information about entire electoral process, e.g. violence reports </li></ul>

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Objectives <ul><li>PVC has to be done before the official results are announced </li></ul><ul><li>As results are announced officially, the electorate can identify manipulation, e.g. a location that reports multiple violence and late ballot materials can not have 100% voter turn out </li></ul>

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App Design Philosophy <ul><li>Easy to use and idiot-friendly app </li></ul><ul><li>Create report through simple forms that allows users to select options </li></ul><ul><li>The only time the user needs to type is when they are typing results </li></ul><ul><li>No need for guide document </li></ul><ul><li>Game mechanics to encourage sharing to make it more viral </li></ul>

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App Design Philosophy <ul><li>Click-to-call features </li></ul>

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Benefits <ul><li>Mobile app equipped users with all necessary information needed for the election </li></ul><ul><li>Mobile app created a channel for the users to be notified of emergencies and information of high importance </li></ul>

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Benefits <ul><li>More information available more quickly </li></ul><ul><li>Increases the voice of the citizens on conduct of elections </li></ul>

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ReVoDa <ul><li>Citizen Reporting System via Mobile App </li></ul><ul><li>Users record information from their polling units a number of times during the day and transmit data to centralized database via SMS </li></ul><ul><li>Aggregates citizen data including electoral irregularities and results in an online database </li></ul>

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ReVoDa <ul><li>Provides easy-to-use templates through native app that users can use to automatically generate the reports </li></ul><ul><li>Reports data by polling units, town, states and zones with possible hourly updates </li></ul><ul><li>Beyond the mobile app, a web-based social ecosystem makes the entire process more fun! </li></ul>

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ReVoDa Report Elements <ul><li>Election Type </li></ul><ul><li>Election Officials Arrival </li></ul><ul><li>Material Availability </li></ul><ul><li>Fraud </li></ul><ul><li>Police Behaviour </li></ul><ul><li>Election Results </li></ul>

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Technology <ul><li>JavaMe (j2me) application </li></ul><ul><li>SMS integration </li></ul><ul><li>Runs on Symbian/Java environment </li></ul><ul><li>Works on both SmartPhones and non-SmartPhones </li></ul>

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SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

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ReVoDa Screenshot

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ReVoDa: Register <ul><li>Register your phone with your Polling Unit code </li></ul><ul><li>Identify yourself with your name or choose to remain anonymous (though we encourage non-anonymous registration for credibility) </li></ul>

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ReVoDa: Make Report <ul><li>Choose the Make Report menu option </li></ul><ul><li>Select the Election Type to update the type of election you are reporting </li></ul><ul><li>Update any other relevant election information </li></ul><ul><li>Click Send to update </li></ul>

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ReVoDa: Share <ul><li>Make the app viral by sharing with your friends </li></ul><ul><li>Enter your friend ’ s number and click Send </li></ul>

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ReVoDa: Spread the Word <ul><li>Make the app viral by sharing on Social Media </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Facebook </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Twitter </li></ul></ul>

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Distribution <ul><li>Via online downloads </li></ul><ul><li>MicroSD cards or offline App stores </li></ul>

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Statistics <ul><li>10,000 downloads from ReVoDa & vikantti sites </li></ul><ul><li>Downloads from 35 out of 36 states </li></ul><ul><li>3 flavours of app (Smartphone, Lite and Blackberry) </li></ul><ul><li>60% used Nokia phones </li></ul><ul><li>30% used blackberry </li></ul><ul><li>2 TV stations used the ReVoDa data feed </li></ul>

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Challenges <ul><li>Lack of publicity in the traditional media </li></ul><ul><li>Not enough time to spread the word </li></ul>

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Impact <ul><li>Increased citizen participation in the monitoring of good governance via manifesto promise delivery, government projects, corruption reports, and many other problems that Nigerians have almost come to accept as human. </li></ul>

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References <ul><li>http://tech42011.eventbrite.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>http:// groups.google.com/group/naija -elections-tech </li></ul><ul><li>http:// revoda.org.ng </li></ul><ul><li>http:// eie.org.ng </li></ul><ul><li>http:// mobileactive.org </li></ul><ul><li>http:// eienigeria.org/rsvp </li></ul>

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Thank you