The project aims at promotion of free, fair and transparent parliamentary elections in Armenia through enhancing civic participation in the observation and reporting of electoral processes, as well as strengthening the capacity of activists for public oversight of electoral processes and reporting via new communication technologies and increasing the knowledge and publicity of electoral processes via internet visualization of the reported data. The project provides to develop networks and train reporters on using sms, twitter and facebook to report election violations, coordinate and moderate collection of data on electoral violations during parliamentary elections of 2012 and visualize those via an interactive web-based map.

Budget

AMD 6,391,000.00

Donors

Counterpart International - Armenia, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Open Society Foundations - Armenia, US Agency for International Development

Beneficiaries

Civic activists, social scientists, NGOs, political parties, government institutions, international organizations and foreign missions

Partners

Media Diversity Institute, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office, "Asparez" Journalists' Club