Whether at the recent G20 meeting in India or in multilateral forums such as the Open Government Partnership, there has been a lot of talk about #DigitalPublicInfrastructures, the process of digitalisation (or "#digitaltransformation") to ensure that basic social services are digital and accessible. ๐๐พ ๐งต
At @9b925ea6, we believe that a public infrastructure is not possible if it is not truly #open. That's why we're launching this initiative to work on a key moment in democracies, the moment of voting. ๐๐พ ๐งต
Starting last week, we are creating and enabling a global alliance to advocate, design and implement the following building blocks for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Electoral Processes ๐๐พ ๐งต
1๏ธโฃ ๐ Electoral Data Standards โ A data standard for governments to publish all their electoral data like districts, establishments, candidates, results, etc ๐๐พ ๐งต
2๏ธโฃ ๐ค API for publishing results โ #OpenSource web servers that can publish the results of the elections during the electoral processes. ๐๐พ ๐งต
3๏ธโฃ ๐ฅ๏ธ Open Data Portals โ #OpenData Portals as repositories for historical data of previous elections. ๐๐พ ๐งต