₦airaland Forum

Ever wondered who developed the solution that was used to register voters for the just concluded elections?
Ever wondered about the technology and all that went into it?
well wonder no more.
you can read all about it http://lagosgtug..com/2011/05/openvr-story-behind-story.html
enjoy!

Ever wondered who developed the solution that was used to register voters for the just concluded elections?
Ever wondered about the technology and all that went into it?
well wonder no more.

To its credit, OpenVR can boast of

- Aggregating over 85 Tera-bytes of Data
- Printing 73M+ Voter's Cards
- Generating over 4,600,000 Pages of Reports in PDF
- Collecting over 500,000,000 Fingerprints
- Installation on over 132,000 machines and hundreds of servers
- An effective one-click patching system
- Full Integrated AFIS

Built from ground up to be very secure and unobtrusive at the same time, OpenVR software runs on Ubuntu – a Linux Operating System and supports a variety of fingerprint scanners, external hard drives, printers and web-cameras. It also features an in-built Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to reject multiple registration attempts. It comes as a bundled solution that works right out of the box, without any configuration required on most hardware.

We created it as a one-click-to-install solution – it automatically installs and configures the video drivers, sound drivers, network and wireless card drivers, scanners, printers and other devices. We chose Ubuntu for several reasons including – ease of customization, rigorous quality assurance, hardware compatibility and a renowned security track record.

you can read all about it http://lagosgtug..com/2011/05/openvr-story-behind-story.html
enjoy!

The Lagos Google Technology User Group held an Open House event focused on the Google Android developer challenge for sub saharan Africa.
It was very interesting.
Details of the event can be found at http://lagosgtug..com/2011/04/anrdroid-challange-open-house-unilag.html

You can monitor the results as people all over Nigeria upload them and also upload yours at the following link:
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com/result/view/

Hello,
Again we would like to thank you for all the interest and support you have
shown for the electoral process in Nigeria.
Your pictures, videos and comments uploaded on
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com have gone a long way in providing
transperancy into the conduct of the elections in Nigeria to the
extent that some of them have been featured on Google's special
YouTube Channel on the Nigerian elections
(http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BA369F23714B6C13)

As the nation again goes out to vote tomorrow to elect its president,
we are pleased to inform you that we have added a feature that will
enable you enter results from your polling units as you get them.
The collated results as entered by you will be displayed on our site
starting from 4:00pm tomorrow.
Last week your videos, pictures and comments pulled visitors from over
20 countries world wide.
Again we would like to take
this opportunity to remind you that the burden of ensuring a
transparent election falls on all of us. As we go out to vote tomorrow
and going forward , endeavor to go out with your camera phones, be
observant, take pictures when you can and if possible record videos.
You can upload these pictures and videos as well as your comments to
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com
to show the world the elections as it unfolds in Nigeria.
Once again we enjoin you to contribute to a transparent elections in
Nigeria.
Sincerely Yours

The Nigerian Polling Station Monitor

Hello,
Again we would like to thank you for all the interest and support you have
shown for the electoral process in Nigeria.
Your pictures, videos and comments uploaded on http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com have gone a long way in providing transperancy into the conduct of the elections in Nigeria to the extent that some of them have been featured on Google's special YouTube Channel on the Nigerian elections (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BA369F23714B6C13)

As the nation again goes out to vote tomorrow to elect its president, we are pleased to inform you that we have added a feature that will enable you enter results from your polling units as you get them.
The collated results as entered by you will be displayed on our site starting from 4:00pm tomorrow.
Last week your videos, pictures and comments pulled visitors from over 20 countries world wide.
Again we would like to take
this opportunity to remind you that the burden of ensuring a
transparent election falls on all of us. As we go out to vote tomorrow
and going forward , endeavor to go out with your camera phones, be
observant, take pictures when you can and if possible record videos.
You can upload these pictures and videos as well as your comments to
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com
to show the world the elections as it unfolds in Nigeria.
Once again we enjoin you to contribute to a transparent elections in
Nigeria.
Sincerely Yours

The Nigerian Polling Station Monitor

View pictures, videos and comments from todays elections at http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com
Feel free to upload your videos and pictures!
Uploaded pictures and videos will geocoded and automatically displayed on Youtube and Picasa
The elections will be televised!

View pictures, videos and comments from todays elections at http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com
Feel free to upload your videos and pictures!
The elections will be televised!

Hi There People!
We would like to thank you for all the interest and support you have shown for the electoral process in Nigeria.
As the nation again goes out to vote tomorrow , we would like to take this opportunity to remind you that the burden of ensuring a transparent election falls on all of us. As we go out to vote tomorrow and going forward , endeavor to go out with your camera phones, be observant, take pictures when you can and if possible record videos.
You can upload these pictures and videos as well as your comments to
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com
to show the world the elections as it unfolds in Nigeria.
Since last weekend inspite of the postponed elections, the site has been the focus of Nigerians and Non Nigerians world wide as people from more than 19 countries worldwide logged in to view the content that was uploaded to the site before the elections were postponed.
All uploaded pictures and videos will be made available to the world via Youtube and Picasa.

Once again we enjoin you to contribute to a transparent elections in Nigeria.
Sincerely Yours

The Nigerian Polling Station Monitor

Hello , Sorry for the late reply.
We will be needing all sorts of help, from technical help to constructive criticisms on the design.
The site was built in python and runs on Google App Engine.
The source code will soon be released on Google Code as open source

Please view the link below to see live pictures from across Lagos and Nigeria.

https://picasaweb.google.com/116782089955538201960

If you have any pictures or comments, you can upload them at

http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com

Just locate your polling station and upload


Its a live election,
lets make it transparent

This is to introduce
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com,
This website allows you to locate the polling station and make comments about your observations and even upload pictures of the events.
Pictures that are uploaded will be displayed to the world through Picasa, The globally renowned picture sharing website
The sites layout has been optimzed for use with mobile phones and will be continoually improved during the elections to give users the ultimate usage experience.
All comments and queries on the site should be sent to ngpollingstations2011@gmail.com

we must make this election work!

This is to introduce
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com,
This website allows you to locate the polling station and make comments about your observations and even upload pictures of the events.
Pictures that are uploaded will be displayed to the world through Picasa, The globally renowned picture sharing website
The sites layout has been optimzed for use with mobile phones and will be continoually improved during the elections to give users the ultimate usage experience.
All comments and queries on the site should be sent to ngpollingstations2011@gmail.com

we must make this election work!

Well, i guess they are doing the best they can at this point.
We can also augument their efforts by being the eye on the ground.
Some ICT initaitives are there to help us.
Examples are the mobile application from EiE that enables us to send sms messages to a hotline.
Another is the web site :
http://ngpollingstations.appspot.com,
that allows you to locate the polling station and make comments about your observations and even upload pictures of the events.
we must make this election work!