Gaurav Mishra on Vote Report India

Vote Report India ( http://votereport.in/ ) is a collaborative citizen-driven election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections, built on the Ushahidi platform. Gaurav will talk about the story behind the project, reflect on how well the project has worked, and share some thoughts on the future of the project.

He’ll also talk about how political parties, civil society organizations and corporates are using digital media in the 2009 Indian Lok Sabha elections.

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Gaurav Mishra is the[masked] Yahoo! Fellow in International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet at Georgetown University and a 2009 Society for New Communications Research Fellow. At Georgetown University, Gaurav is leading research on social media and mobile use in the BRIC countries and teaching a graduate course on “Social Media in Business, Civil Society and Government”. Gaurav is frequently quoted in in Indian and international media on topics related to social media, digital activism and citizen journalism and is a regular speaker at conferences. Gaurav has contributed chapters to two books on social media and is writing chapters for three forthcoming books on online journalism, digital activism and government 2.0. Gaurav writes a popular blog on social media and social change at http://gauravonomics.... (http://gauravonomics.com).