twitter broadcast in ukraine paris_speech_nov10,2010

Twitter broadcast of Elections 2010 in Ukraine

Vitaliy Moroz, Head of New media Internews Ukraine

IAPC conference, Paris, Nov 10, 2010

Internews Ukraine / MediaNext, 2010

Ukraine: 2nd territorially largest country in Europe


10 key words for Ukraine 2005


10 key words for Ukraine 2010


Social media in 2010 (as of October)


Twitter: 0,08 mln

Facebook: 0,9 mln

Internet users: 11,5 mln

Social media in 2012 (as expected)


Twitter: 0,3 mln

Facebook: 5 mln

Internet users: 18 mln

´data by MediaNext

In 2010 Ukraine had 2 electionsJan 17, runoff

Feb 7Presidential

Elections

October 31st

Local Elections


What was Twitter broadcast of elections?


Live reporting from my street and my polling station via Twitter:


Main idea of project:


Participants report on

the “hottest”news

and most alarming incidents

Reports based on tweets with hashtags:


Sample of tweets:


Data: 19790 tweets with #elect_ua


What tasks of Twitter broadcast?

- To read easily

- To post easily

- To filter tweets by topic/region

- To avoid censorship

- To alarm on possible violations


How readers could read easily?

Web-site aggregating all election-related tweets launched – www.electua.org


How we filtered tweets by topic / region?

#elect_ua – national level tweets

#elect_sos – tweets telling on possible violations

#elect_te, #elect_zp etc – regional tweets

+ combination of hashtags:

#elect_od + #elect_sos


How contributors could post easily?

SMS via t.liqpay.com

Mobile Internet - MobyPicture.com, Dabr.is

Web-interface - Twitter.com

Twitter clients – Hootsuite, Tweetdeck


How do we avoid censorship?

Readers for their convenience could follow Twitter broadcast via ElectUA.org

If it would have been shut down all tweets are available via Twitter.com


How do we alarm on possible election fraud?

Special attention to #elect_sos

1700 violation tweets were generated by 300 participants during local elections to inform target audiences


Results / Sum up?

• Social media impact on politics

• Better civic engagement in election process

• National level crowd sourcing

• Clear voice for free and fair elections

• Civic oversight on violations


Next steps for Ukraine?

Facebook broadcast of elections?:)


Finally

How does your network use to the full potential those fabulous things?


Thank you!

[email protected]

@vitaliymoroz (english)

@insider_ua (ukrainian)


Vitaliy Moroz, Head of new media, Internews Ukraine

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