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Brief Profiles of Countries, EMBs and Partner Organisations of A-WEB
analysis. Identification and obliteration of
barriers for Inclusion.
 Enhancing electoral participation through
information, motivation and facilitation.
 Integration of technology at different steps in
electoral processes.
 Voter Education and Electoral Literacy: Use of
multimedia ICT in communications;
 Strategies for inclusion of different categories
of voters.
 Emerging challenges from social media and
adoption of new ICT/IT for enhancing voter
participation.
 Strengthening of Election Support Data bases.
 Strengthening of Dispute Resolution
Mechanisms.
 Strengthening of both, the vertical and
horizontal interaction among members.
 Elector Confidence, Voter Apathy.
 Anatomy of Campaigns.
 Electoral Integrity.
 Independence of EMB’s : Insulation from any
scope of interference from the Government and
Party in power, Plenary powers of the EMB’s:
the nature and scope thereof; And
 Knowledge sharing on Innovation, initiatives
and Best Practices.
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It would be appropriate to mention about VoICE.NET
and VoICE International also at this place.VoICE.NET, the
global voter education knowledge sharing Portal, was
launched on 20th October, 2016 as a part of the Resolve
of the participating countries in the International Confer-
ence on ‘Voter Education for Inclusive, Informed and Eth-
ical Participation’ organized by the Election Commission
of India at New Delhi, India. The Portal inter alia hosts
VoICE International, the quarterly global magazine on
voter education. The magazine carries very rich contri-
bution in terms of articles from EMB’s across the world.
Readily accessible on VoICE.NET, the magazine is a vast
resource on voter education along with a series of ‘Con-
ference Readers’ for different International Conferences
organized by the ECI on voter education, Electoral Liter-
acy Clubs, Voter Awareness Forums and other areas of
interest in voter education. Members of the A-WEB have
been invited to join VoICE.NET and VoICE Internation-
al and contribute articles based on their experience, the
best practices and new initiatives.
While working on this document, we had accessed a large
number of websites and these are listed in the Referenc-
es section of this document. Similarly, other sections car-
ry ‘Important Information about A-WEB Members’, Web-
site addresses Glossary of Terms etc. With the objective
of achieving larger accuracy of the data, the Profiles were
effectively circulated among A-WEB community by way
of hoisting it on the website of the Centre and later cir-
culation through good offices of the Secretary General,
A-WEB. However, the response from some of Members is
awaited. Information contained in the Profiles is dynamic
in nature. We at the India A-WEB Centre are developing a
mechanism to facilitate regular and periodic updating of
the information. We will be glad to receive inputs from the
Members to carry out not only regular updating but also
mean substantive value addition to the ‘Ready Reckoner’
document.
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