iHub Research conducted a 6-month assessment of the Kenya 2013 Uchaguzi deployment, an ICT based election-monitoring platform that ran during the March 4th Kenya elections. The research project sought to document the Uchaguzi process leading up to the Kenya 2013 Elections in order to highlight how the technology platform might be relevant for other communities and countries; to understand how to make the Uchaguzi initiative more sustainable and scalable in the future; to develop a set of metrics to aid in this evaluation and analyze the replicability of the Uchaguzi process so as to provide targeted recommendations for scaling up the initiative.
This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?
This essay is part of a broader exhibit on iHub Research.