The Estonian e-Residency offers every world citizen a government-issued digital identity card which can be used to open a bank account, start a business (Estonia holds the world-record of establishing a new business in just 18 minutes) and pay (Estonian) taxes
Space technology would ease electronic voting in Nigeria
Professor Ibiyemi Samuel, Vice Chancellor of the Achievers University in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria, has recently stated that electronic voting would be possible in Nigeria if the NigComsat-1R satellite is fully deployed. He made such comments during the fourth anniversary celebration
Experts gather to discuss the role of technology in elections
“The Atlantic Council” will gather a group of experts to debate on the use of technology in the creation of more robust and participative democracies. The event entitled “Democracy Rebooted: The Future of Technology in Elections” will be hosted in
Technology to strengthen democracy
Today, 1/3 of the world’s voters use technology to cast their ballot; and, as days go by, this number increases. Although there are plenty of reasons why countries decide to adopt technology, all of them can be summarized in one
Smartmatic in the Founders Forum – New York
Antonio Mugica, CEO of Smartmatic, the leading company in elections worldwide, will participate in the Founders Forum in New York on October 7-8, to discuss how technology can shape the November 2016 US elections. The Founders Forum, hailed by The Guardian
Election Adoption Maturity Model
Elections are very complex projects to manage. They usually take place over large territories, involve thousands of candidates in hundreds of jurisdictions competing simultaneously, require millions of election instruments to be under strict supervision while they are distributed across the