Nigeria meets all the criteria of vulnerability to social media abuse identified by the Kofi Annan Commission on Electoral Integrity in the Digital Age: low trust in institutions, deep ethnic, religious and regional cleavages, and highly partisan media. Nigeria also has a history of election-related violence that puts the nation on tenterhooks every five years.. Read More
At a two-day multistakeholder workshop hosted by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD-Kenya) in Nairobi on the 8th and 9th of November 2021, election stakeholders explored practical solutions to some of the challenges posed by digital technologies in Kenya. A key concern emerging from the workshop was the harmful impact. Read More