Nigerian Tech Company to Digitize Electoral Space in Nigeria
TECHDIGEST – Nigeria has established a non-partisan social network that connects voters from the same voting unit, ward, local government, and state across the country. The majority of digital apps entering the Nigerian market are in the Fintech, Mobility, Insurtech, and EdTech categories, but this is the only custom-built software geared at digitizing the electoral space for proximal interactions using the lowest Electoral unit as a determinant during registration. This will play out in the social media area, where we have foreign huge tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Opera News Hub.
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The features are created for Nigeria’s electoral framework, which isn’t an afterthought, and will serve the country’s electoral community of over 73 million registered voters and over 120 million people of voting age. As of now, the app connects users by matching their electoral profiles, assisting in voter engagement, which leads to better election outcomes, targeted audience interactions, and ward-centric talks.
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The goal of the app isn’t to affect how people vote. It is to encourage and foster voter interactions that will allow them to influence and collaborate in order to make more informed electoral decisions. A major part of persuasion to decrease voter apathy is building rapport and trust among voters at the ward level.
For signups, the software uses Usernames rather than Full Names, so users can stay anonymous if they wish. It’s also up to you whether or not to include your phone number. In order to combat the spread of fake news and hate speech, the app includes a newsfeed of respectable, trusted, and reputable online and traditional media from which members can share news across wards, states, and local governments. Users may also use the flags and blocking methods to report abusive posts, which are then automatically removed from your feed, and to block users they consider poisonous.”
