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The work of the Uchaguzi Community Working Groups is helping to inform and support the work of the Uchaguzi Digital Teams. People are welcome to join and support both types of teams.

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SIGN UP! (This form is closed as of Friday, March 1st at 17:00 EST.) Only those who are trained can join the digital teams.

The Teams:

1. Media Monitoring

This team will be in charge of monitoring citizen reports via different social media streams, i.e twitter, facebook, blogs. They will, in turn, create reports from these social media streams. We will not be posting mainstream media reports on the Uchaguzi platform.

2. Translation

The translation team will be in charge of translating reports (including those created out of tweets/SMSes) from local languages to English.The primary local language we will focus on is Kiswahili. The Translation team will work very closely with the Media Monitoring and SMS teams.

3. SMS

This team will handle all incoming SMS messages into the platform, including determination of origin i.e location. They will be in charge of report creation from SMS.

4. Geolocation

This team will be in charge of reviewing all reports for geolocation. They will review the work of the Media Monitoring and SMS teams. They will search for locations and map reports.

5. Verification

This team is in charge of information triangulation and verification of reports. They will work very close with our Emergency Desk and our partners. They will work to ensure that feedback and response occurs for critical and urgent items. They will also work to confirm and corroborate reports using other reports and mainstream media.  

6. Reports

This team is in charge of report approval and editing. No other team, except this one, will approve reports. They will determine which reports are fit to appear on the map (by approving). They will also be in charge of ensuring reports previously created by SMS and Media Monitoring team are properly categorised .

7. Analysis and Research

This team is in charge of analysing information(sense making) received in the platform, and providing situation room reports in the form of data visualisation, pdfs etc. They will use many different tools and methodologies to help show the data in valuable ways which can be used by partners, citizens and more. They will work very closely with Project coordinators and communications officers.

8. Tech Team

This team is in charge of maintenance of https://uchaguzi.co.ke for the duration of election monitoring.