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	<title>Uchaguzi</title>
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	<description>An election monitoring tech toolbox</description>
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		<title>Freedom Fone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Freedom Fone offers the possibility to extend the reach of information to citizens and groups presently excluded from the information loop because of lack of access to resources such as computers and the internet.  Freedom Fone makes it easy to build voice menus, run SMS polls, receive SMS messages and manage voice messages.
Freedome Fone is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/29/freedom-fone/</link>
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		<title>CMS tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A content management system (CMS) is a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based. The procedures are designed to register and maintain individual user accounts within a role-based permission/privilege system, create and manage menus, RSS-feeds, customize page layout, perform logging, and administer the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/29/cms-tools/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress is an intuitive web publishing platform that makes it easy to publish blogs for free.  Software can be downloaded for blogs that are self-hosted or Wordpress offers free hosting in the cloud.
Uses
A blog can be used to provide information and build a community around elections monitoring projects.  It can provide insight and analysis on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/28/wordpress/</link>
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		<title>CiviCRM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CiviCRM is a free, libre and open source software constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.  CiviCRM allows organizations to communally manage contacts, segment mailing lists, events, reports, fundraising contacts and more.
Uses
CiviCRM can be particularly useful in large-scale election monitoring projects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/28/civicrm/</link>
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		<title>NDI’s election monitoring tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NDI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization that has supported democratic institutions and practices in every region of the world for more than two decades. Since its founding in 1983, NDI and its local partners have worked to establish and strengthen political and civic organizations, safeguard elections, and promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/27/ndi%e2%80%99s-election-monitoring-tool/</link>
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		<title>MySociety.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MySociety.org is a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. They also run some of the best-known democracy and transparency websites in the UK, TheyWorkForYou and WriteToThem.

Uses
MySociety.org can be hired to improve digital strategies for election monitoring projects.  They provide services from basic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/27/mysociety-org/</link>
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		<title>International SMS gateways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An SMS gateway is a device or service offering SMS transit, transforming messages to mobile network traffic from other media, or vice versa, allowing transmission or receipt of SMS messages with or without the use of a mobile phone. Typical use of a gateway would be to forward simple e-mail to a mobile phone recipient. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/27/international-sms-gateways/</link>
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		<title>Pentaho</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pentaho BI Suite provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including query and reporting, interactive analysis, dashboards, data integration/ETL, data mining, and a BI platform that has made it one of the most popular open source BI suites. It can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud
You can choose the complete suite, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/27/pentaho/</link>
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		<title>SMS Turks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SMS Turks is a system created by the Ushahidi team to help mobile reporting projects parse information out of text messages.  It allows for the translation, categorization and basic geocoding of sms messages in a way that keeps them organized and manageable.
Uses
Processing reports during election monitoring can be time consuming and tedious.  SMS Turks can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/26/sms-turks/</link>
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		<title>Swift River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Swift River is a free and open source software platform that uses algorithms and crowdsourcing to validate and filter news.

An Introduction to the Swift River initiative from Ushahidi on Vimeo.
Uses
SwiftRiver acts as the verifying filter for information coming through mobile reports, social media and other sources.  During highly contested elections being able to assess the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.uchaguzi.info/2010/05/26/swift-river/</link>
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