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Surprise Us
What have we missed? Inspire us with insights, examples and stories that go beyond our other missions.
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3V: VIEW, VOICE, VOTE @20:00 on the (hulu.com) model
I am turning the camera on the voters. The candidates are going to listen to ...
A Girls Running Start
By educating young women and girls about the importance of politics, and imbu...
Americans Elect - a non-partisan third option for President and VP in 2012
From AE's website: "Americans Elect (www.AmericansElect.org) is a nonpartisan...
An interesting point in Irelands voting history and its attempts to make it digital.
A story that I thing people might find interesting on the Irish government's ...
Art2U
Inspired by the food truck, and the general thoughts of convenience, I was re...
ASL Music Videos
Music videos in sign language. Surprised? Why not?
Audio announcement − The sound of voting
Bell towers are calling on the hours or announce a marriage, minarets telling...
Be. Accessible in the Land of Be.
Accessibility opens up a world of possibility for everyone! Imagine if the wh...
Cameroon Election: Malpractices and superstition.
Election processes are usually marked by superstition and other malpractices ...
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Conquering "Vail" Mountain
While the video is somewhat outside the scope of the challenge, Mr. Horton fa...
Customised election practices in developing countries:
Due to lack of resources, low levels of democracy or high corruption levels, ...
Democracy - Participatory Governance: Inclusive Elections
Democracy (participatory governance) is either direct or indirect. Direct mea...
Different accessibility medium for different people
People with special needs have a very large section in India
Down with the Butterfly Ballot: Accessibility Starts with Making the Current Ballot Papers Readable
I cannot believe the horrible, error-prone, design of American Ballot Papers....
Employ People to Overcome the Obstacles
Instead of relying on volunteers and good will use the public purse to pay pe...
Engage 4 Change
In California, the Engage4Change.com campaign used Ideavibes’ Crowd Engagemen...
Flat Pack Polling Booths
Light weight cardboard polling cubicles and vote collection boxes form the co...
Government innovations
Singapore's government map: http://www.onemap.sg/index.html and Tunisia's gov...
How to encourage young adults to become a voter
Since I was a child, my parents did not allow me to discuss politics with peo...
i-Voting. Learning from Estonia
Internet voting, or 'i-voting', is a system that allows voters to cast their ...
Improve voting by not voting! (use polls instead...)
Why do people need to vote at all? Statistical models are increasingly accura...
Increasing efficiency of Proxy Votes
I have never voted or seen my parents cast a vote. My plight leaves me ashame...
Kiosk Voting
Voting at your local drug store
Let everyone vote on bills via the internet.
Any citizen can vote directly on bills, rather than petitioning a representat...
Mail Boxes & Ink Pads
Mailboxes/Drop Boxes or something similarly designed can be placed at various...
Make Polls Really Useful
Most polls ask something like "If an election was held today/tomorrow who wou...
Making voting as easy as Netflix
A democracy where less than half of people vote isn’t good enough. I came acr...
Making Voting convenient
The roll of smart devices (phones, tablets etc) is growing, especially in how...
Mobile Town Halls: Campaigning on the Subway
Take all the elements of a pre-election town hall--candidates, citizens, camp...
Mobile voting units can bring the ballots to the voters
A mobile voting unit could access those voters that do not have easy access t...
More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year due to using right-handed products.
Left handed in the right handed world .
National Voting ID Card for USA
Looking at the hotch-potch of ways to register for voting in USA perhaps an i...
non-traditional views from voter
Since I started to interview some citizen, I found that not all the people ar...
Voters ID card with unique Personal Identification Number
A Voters ID card along with Personal Identification Number (PIN) similar to y...
Phantom recorder: what if...
Exploring new interfaces for people with disabilities might lead to innovatio...
Political Candidate Matchmaking
What are the real issues here and where do the candidates stand? More specifi...
Popeye For President!
In this cartoon we will see how Popeye and Bluto are trying to make Olive Oyl...
Provide a means for everyone to have real-time access to voting and information
I was inspired by watching this documentary and seeing how people were able t...
Redesign the ballot, create a political graphic language
Much can be done for accessibility through sound graphic design. There have b...
Redundant parralell voting to usher in Democracy 2.0?
Seems to me that the electoral process should be done online. however, for no...
Remote Secure Fingerprint Voting
Vote securely from remote locations using your fingerprint
See How Big Stars Asking People Not to Vote?!!
Hollywood big stars made a video to encourage people vote by a interesting wa...
sELECT a STORY
Widespread accessibility can be achieved via the integrated use of standard t...
Social Media Encourages You To Vote
Facebook is one example of social media that has encouraged people to vote, w...
Some pictures for a historical analogy from Basque Country, Europe
This picture (which is taken from http://www.guregipuzkoa.net), was taken in ...
Speed Dating for Bureaucrats and Politicians
The Australian Youth Summit - Heywire - is on this week and has some innovati...
The "Door to Door" system at the University of Wisconsin residential halls
Most college students don't like to leave there residential halls because the...
The Silent Indian National Anthem
An attempt to make the process inclusive, National Anthem is something that ...
The Smithsonian's Machinery of Democracy
It would be interesting to experience a curated history (in a museum or open ...
Tony Melendez: Guitarist with no arms
If Tony can play the guitar without arms then surely voting can be simplified...
TRANSLATION via augmented reality: Democracy speaks your language!
Amazing translation applications like World Lens (see video) suggest possibil...
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Verifiable Electronic Voting
Electronic voting may increase accessibility in political elections - but it ...
Vote Double-Check
This video from TED featuring David Bismark inspired me to consider different...
Vote Easy
This website makes it easy for you to discover which candidates platforms you...
Voting At Your Fingertips - Biometric App
Given our mobile and digital lifestyles, we should no longer need to physical...
Voting Cubes
What if we filled cubes like the one outside Apple's flagship NYC store with ...
Voting Paradox: A Lesson for Internet Voting
Reducing barriers to voting can in fact lower voter turnout. This seeming par...
Voting via VoIP
Web-based technology won't just make life easier, It will change the course o...
What's in a ballot?
Getting away from flat pieces of paper as ballots opens up possibilities. A m...
What we've learned from a century of better than 99% turnout in Australia
Queue lengths matter. Our most accessible technology is paper. The ...