This Saturday (Feb. 25, 2023), Nigerians will be going to the polls to elect new leaders in an election powered by technology. Nigeria’s amended Electoral Act, 2022 provides legal backing for the electronic accreditation of voters and the transmission and collation of results.We wrote about the three technologies that will power this election— Voter Enrollment Device (IVED), Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) and INEC Election Result Viewing Portal (IReV).
IVED for improved registration of voters, BVAS for both voter accreditation and e-transmission of results for collation and the INEC IReV portal to offer the public access to view Polling Unit results.
In letter 150, we examine the following:
- SpaceX’s recommendation of payment fintechs for the purchase of Starlink in Nigeria
- layoffs at Chipper Cash and Jumia
- CcHub’s plan to invest $15 million into 72 African edtech startups
and other noteworthy information like:
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Last updated: December 26, 2024
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