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Complete Voting Solution in Your Mobile. Innovations in Use of IT technology/ Voters Education and Electoral Participation. Sonali Giri , ADEO Bathinda. Best Electoral Practices Awards-2014. Why a mobile application??. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
COMPLETE VOTING SOLUTION IN YOUR
MOBILE
Best Electoral Practices Awards-2014
Innovations in Use of IT technology/Voters Education and Electoral ParticipationSonali Giri ,ADEO
Bathinda
Why a mobile application??
Urban population forms 82% of the total mobile internet users- 153 Mn out of 185 Mn
Out of 153 Mn urban users Approx 67% are Smartphone users
iVote – Need of the Hour
E-governance -ultimate act of empowerment for the people
Most of the present day voters are young and quite tech-savvy
1.79 lakh New voters (approx)in each Parliamentary constituency. Of them, about 24 % in the 18-19 age group
Use of mobile technology becomes imperative in any SVEEP activity
Rise of social media's importance can be utilized as an incentive to leverage the initiatives
With the elections process under way- much need to reach to more voters through all means
iVote signifies Individual’s
assertion over his/her right of voting as in “I VOTE”
It also signifies that INDIA VOTES
It explains the internet base of its utility features as in “iPhone/iPad”
What is iVote ?
Android based user friendly mobile application
Various Election related utility features like
Directions to the one’s polling booth, information about contesting candidates
EPIC based customisation and E-voting Slip Knowing about the Candidates Info A comprehensive model code of conduct for
ready reference An easy complaint submission mechanism Live Election Results
Utility Features
iVote currently features 6 different utility features
1. E-Voter Slip
2. Map2Booth
3. Candidate Affidavit
4. Model Code of Conduct
5. Complaint
6. Live Election Results
Map2booth
User can select District from menu and type in polling booth no. Press “get directions” tab.
Using the mobile’s GPS location /coordinates from the database, find exact directions to booth and also navigate through the route
Helpful to young first time voters -finding the booth a pleasurable exercise
Female voters don't have to depend on anyone to guide them to their polling booths
Candidate Affidavit
To Help the voters to make informed choice
Most of the time the Candidate’ s information critical information is not that readily available to voters
User can see the Affidavit (form 26) filed by any candidate in a particular parliamentary constituency during nomination process
Model Code of Conduct
Ready reference of Model of Conduct guidelines for the political parties and candidates are displayed
If required more informative material regarding Form 6, Form7, Form 8,Form 8A can also be preloaded
Complaint Registration
Complaint registration process –need to be very simplistic one
One has to just write his name, email id and details of complaint and send it to authorities as the contact details of the complaint centre for various districts already pre-fed
Even if one wants to attach any pictures then can use the ATTACH feature with his/her complaint
EPIC based Customization
To generate e-Voter Slip,
Go directly to voter’s unique polling booth location
Display candidates of voter’s constituency only
NO requirement of submitting district name in complaint submission
Mobile number can be verified and can be used to send election relevant information
Live Election Results
Live Counting trends for Nation-Wise, State/Constituency-wise and Party wise results
Can be selected in advance /delivered via timely push notifications or as ticker on his mobile screen
Launch & User Response
Despite the late start ,There were total 75,516 potential users as on 05th June, 2014
First milestone achieved within 8 days of launchwith 10,000 downloads by 24th April, 2014
As on 25th May, 2014 the total actual downloads for iVotewere25,494
Positive mouth publicity-many people from other countries have also browsed through the application
Mainly countries with siginificant Punjabi Diaspora as USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Indonesia etc.
Positive response to iVote
iVote was reviewed by 647 users out of the total users
Out of these 537 reviews (more than 85 %) were very encouraging and are positive (Four stars or above)
People, who reviewed the application praised the application for its Simplicity, Functionality, user interface and overall user experience.
User reviews / Limitations
User Suggestions Limitations
Totally Funded through Donations under CSRTechnical/ Creative Inputs /support through private company on pro bono basisCertain features such as printing/saving option for the voter slip generated by iVote Search option of name based search for EPIC ID- to be launched recently Features were server dependent /old version of server has delayed inclusion of these features
Way Forward-Ultimate solution
Pre-election purposes such as new voter registration, deletion of name, change of address or other information
During Election needs such as knowledge of contesting candidates, knowing model code of conduct and easy complaint mechanism
On Voting day needs such as e-Voter Slip and Map2booth
Scope of iVote
Way Forward-Ultimate Solution
Small utilities such as optional countdown timer for voting day which gives weekly, daily and hourly notifications for voting
Tag My Vote/Ability to poke social network contacts on their voting days so as to urge them to go out and vote
Increase the Fun Experience as well utility to the voters.
Form number 06, 07 and 08 should be integrated and made available vide this application
Single stop solution for all the basic needs of a voter (or prospective voter).
MiscellaneousForm 06, 07 and 08
Technical Details
Android 2.1 and above
Polling location /booth wise latitude –longitude coordinates of all the parliamentary constituencies in Microsoft excel sheet format.
Call centre details viz. Email id, phone, address
Voter EPIC detail stating their name , constituency and polling booth in Microsoft excel format
Mobile app compatibility Data Requirements
Thank you
Ideation by Sonali Giri & Vipul UjwalADEO CommissionerBathinda ,Pb. Bathinda Municipal Corp.
Technical SupportDigital sorcerer's Technologies & Manish AugustNew Delhi Bhatt
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