The importance of ICT in the forthcoming Nigeria election

ICT role in free and credible election

As indicated by Mr. Adesola Aderounmu, president, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and focus pioneer, World Bank-assigned Center of Excellence in Software Engineering, it is an appreciated improvement that the utilizing of innovation had begun, regardless of whether at simple level with the 2015 races that introduced the present organization in Nigeria. 

Refinement, Civic Education and E-Inclusion Sensitizing and instructing voters in Nigeria have dependably been done by means of the conventional broad communications and direct town-corridor network commitment. 

Presently, with the unavoidable impact of innovation in the public eye today, instructing and developing the Nigerian voters should be possible better, utilizing advanced media like the cell phone with mass SMS, mass voice call or inbound intuitive voice reaction, and the utilization of web-based interfaces from pre-decision surveys. Computerized innovation presently advances political correspondences and voter commitment more than ever. Furthermore, with the larger part of individuals approaching PCs and portable innovation gadgets nowadays, INEC and other concerned offices can change the sensitisation, city training and e-incorporation of Nigerian voters with the utilization of the Internet by means of well known web based life like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp and extraordinary versatile applications to channel and scatter voter instruction messages. 

Another approach to use ICT for Nigeria's discretionary procedure is through voting public delimitation, utilizing advanced maps and outlines for legitimate voter enrollment. 

In a majority rules system, voting public delimitation is essential and a disgraceful division of voting public can bargain the appointive procedure, along these lines inciting unnecessary clashes and implications of underestimation among people groups and government officials. With a specific end goal to address this situation of questionable voting public delimitation, it is smarter to apply the utilization of ICT arrangements like computerized mapping, advanced graphs, Global Positioning System (GPS) and GIS Satellite Footprints like our own particular NIGERSAT-1. GPS utilizes satellites that circle Earth to send data to GPS collectors that are on the ground. The data so got enables individuals to decide their area. 

Voter enlistment and information catch constitute a noteworthy foundational venture in the discretionary procedure. Without an appropriate voters enlist, there can't be legitimate decisions. 

In Nigeria, there have dependably been discussions over voter enlistment as some grumble of phantom names showing up on the voters enlist, names of remote nationals showing up and names of under-age voters showing up too on the enroll. Others gripe of missing names on decision days after they have enrolled. Every one of these issues tend to damage the constituent procedure, yet the utilization of ICT foundation can have a beneficial outcome. Along these lines one would suggest the utilization of a unified countrywide database for voter enrollment, drawing on the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) information stock. 

At the point when Election Day comes, ICT likewise has a gigantic part to play in streamlining the appointive procedure to make the race results reasonable and substantial. Truth be told, the sending of innovation amid races is most weighty on the grounds that it limits the uncontrolled episodes of gear and its resultant emergencies. Consequently voter check and voting on race day can be carefully done using direct electronic recoding machine, optical filtering framework, utilization of brilliant cards and card perusers.