CIAO DATE: 05/2014
April 2014
United States Institute of Peace
PakVotes, an experimental project run by a Pakistani NGO and supported by USIP, brought social media platforms together with a network of reporters to track violence during Pakistan’s 2013 elections. The experience offers lessons for the future use of social media to publicize conflicts and violence during elections and other major events.
Resource link: PakVotes: A Social Media Experiment in Elections Monitoring [PDF] - 287K