Kenya Decides: Citizen Reporters Vote & Film the 2013 Election

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March 4, 2013 — As 14 million Kenyans go to the polls to elect their next president, they are equipped not only with a vote, but with a cellphone. Kenyan human rights advocates and citizen reporters are monitoring the election, the results, and the aftermath through twitter, mobile video, and blogs. They are prepared to document any irregularities, incendiary rhetoric, or violence that might occur, and in doing so, maybe even stop turmoil before it starts.

Kenya's last presidential elections, in late 2007, ended in disputed results, hateful speech, and politically targeted violence. Approximately 1,200 Kenyans were killed, more than half a million internally displaced, and an estimated 2,000 experienced sexual and gender-based violence. As WITNESS's Bukeni Waruzi found when he traveled to Kenya this January, the violence caught Kenya by surprise. Human rights workers and citizen reporters were unprepared to document the election violence.

Since then, Kenyan civil society has sprung into action, with trainings, websites, and cameras in preparation to film the 2013 vote. The open-source web platform Ushahidi created a website to track the election in real time; Google Africa created a Kenyan election YouTube channel, and international organizations like WITNESS and Radar helped train citizen reporters to film the election.

Here at the Human Rights Channel, we're monitoring the election process through the eyes, camera phones, twitter feeds, and YouTube channels of Kenyans. Stay tuned for updated videos. If you have your own video to submit, contact us on twitter @ythumanrights, or email curator@witness.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
WITNESS Blog
Can Cell Phones Save Kenya's Elections?
http://bit.ly/YLn037

Uchagazi
A Web Platform for Citizen Reporters
https://uchaguzi.co.ke

Kenya Elections YouTube Channel
http://bit.ly/WsfPNo

Radar Media
http://bit.ly/ZH3MwM

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