A non-governmental organisation has launched a digital platform to track electoral violence in Kwara State.

The platform codenamed “NextElection” has an app to track issues of vote buying, ballot box snatching, attacks on voters and security agencies among others.

Speaking at a stakeholder's engagement in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, yesterday, the Executive Director of Webfala Digital Skills for All Initiative, Mrs Nafisat Bakare, said the initiative, themed “Deploying technology and data to report and combat electoral violence”, is supported by LEAP Africa and funded by the Ford and MacArthur foundations.

She said despite the election being just a few months away, violence has been a recurrent feature in the electoral process.

As active participants in the digital space, we strongly believe that technology can be used to fight violence during elections, hence the formation of the platform to track violence in Kwara next year during the polls,” she said.

She said the platform will provide real-time information on violence during elections using technology and data to support violence monitoring and risk mitigation efforts.

In his remarks, the INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mallam Garba Attahiru Madami, said the online platform is crucial and similar to what INEC is doing to reduce violence in the 2023 poll.