India’s First Digital Election Wiki
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One of my seven social media predictions for India for 2009 was that internet and mobile technologies will play an important role in the 2009 Indian general elections.
I had said that we will see an unprecedented amount of online debate on the many problems facing India and even specific political parties and candidates. We will also see a serious “get out the vote” campaign to get more young people to go out to vote. We will also see some politicians experiment with social media tools, hoping to replicate the magic of Barack Obama’s US presidential campaign. The Lok Sabha elections for 2009 may even produce India’s first tech Prime Minister.
I’m happy to tell you that all that is happening and the upcoming elections are all set to be India’s first digital elections. Over the weekend, I’ll be working on a longish post to highlight these efforts, so stay tuned.
I have also created a wiki titled ‘India’s First Digital Election‘ to compile a database of internet and mobile initiatives being used in the 2009 Indian general elections by political parties, individual politicians, and civil society groups.
I would be grateful if you could add details of websites, blogs, Twitter IDs, Facebook pages/ groups, Orkut groups and other initiatives to the database and encourage others to do so.
Related posts:
- Vote Report India in Indipepal Article on the Use of Digital Tools in the Indian Elections
- Vote Report India Featured in Indian Daily Deccan Herald’s Story on the Use of Digital Technologies in the Indian Elections
- After #IndiaVotes09, Election Campaigning Goes Digital in #IranVotes
- My Live Mint Op-Ed on Why BJP’s Digital Election Campaign Wasn’t A #Fail
- Updated: How Internet and Mobile Technologies are Transforming Election Campaigning in India
MP 8:46 am on March 21, 2009 Permalink |
If you look carefully, digital election campaigns are being managed rather poorly. Its not that political parties have realised the power of internet. It’s just that Obama used it and won. Using a media does not help unless you know how you are using and more importantly what are you using it for.