Does the country use open source software in electoral processes?
Nigeria
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC uses OpenVR – short for Open Voter Registration - a free and completely open-source biometrics capture solution built on open standards. The OpenVR software runs on Ubuntu - a Linux Operating System - and supports a variety of fingerprint scanners, external storage devices, printers and web-cameras. It also features an in-built Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to reject multiple registration attempts. It comes as a bundled solution that works right out of the box, without any configuration required on most hardware.
OpenVR is a Linux-based solution originally designed and developed for the Independent National Electoral Commission (Nigeria) as an Open Source project. Developed for Africa by Nigerians, OpenVR design criteria include ease of use, an intuitive user interface and robustness in the field.
OpenVR was developed by a team of volunteers with technical advisory from IFES (International Foundation for Electoral Systems), and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). Several political, economic, technical, and procedural challenges emerged prior to the 2011 general elections.”INEC didn’t have the equipment, the plan, or the software” to compile a new list, and the equipment used in 2007 was described as “defunct, obsolete, and totally unusable.” Within a tight budget, INEC had to design and procure a whole new system to capture and store voter information and ensure this registry was secure, errorless and election ready. http://www.princeton.edu/successfulsocieties/content/data/policy_note/PN_id190/Policy_Note_ID190.pdf
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC uses OpenVR – short for Open Voter Registration - a free and completely open-source biometrics capture solution built on open standards. The OpenVR software runs on Ubuntu - a Linux Operating System - and supports a variety of fingerprint scanners, external storage devices, printers and web-cameras. It also features an in-built Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to reject multiple registration attempts. It comes as a bundled solution that works right out of the box, without any configuration required on most hardware.
