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An Android-based app for quick reporting of possible election violations, e-voting through personal computers (in more than 500 village chief elections) and an interest from the President’s Executive Office in using technology to ensure elections are conducted with integrity. Put these elements together and it’s clear that Indonesia has holds technology in high regard to help improve the electoral process, making it the ideal first stop in International IDEA’s Election Tech Tour of Asia. 

Electronic voting, biometric registration and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly used by electoral management bodies around the world. But do electronic voting systems and complex registration systems have the trust, efficiency and transparency that the public so demands?

ADDIS ABABA – Dans le cadre de leur partenariat pour la consolidation de la démocratie en Afrique, la Commission de l’Union africaine (CUA), l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) et l’Institut International pour la Démocratie et l’Assistance Electorale (International (IDEA), organisent à Addis-Abeba (Ethiopie), du 29 septembre au 1 octobre 2016, un atelier technique sur le thème « Les registres d’état civil et les élections en Afrique ».

Judiciaries have become increasingly important actors in constitution-making and democracy-building, whether a state seeks to strengthen democracy or transition from undemocratic to democratic rule.

Countries across Africa are struggling to consolidate democracy.

Elections often serve to deepen divisions rather than build social cohesion. There is pressure to change term limits for presidents and election-related violence persists.

YANGON—How can the democratic transition in Myanmar be consolidated and moved forward? During the International Democracy Day event in Yangon, organized on 15 September by Support to Electoral Processes and Democracy (STEP Democracy), stakeholders and high-level keynote speakers including Yangon Region Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein and Peace Conference chairman Tin Myo Win will share their vision on this all important question.

Mission Impossible - Organized crime erodes the legitimacy of the state from the local population with global consequences. What can we do? 

STOCKHOLM—The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is hosting a panel discussion on the crisis of political representation as it relates to political parties. 

Brussels - The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) are hosting a high-level panel discussion on State-building, democracy and corruption: Money in politics in the Eastern neighbourhood.

From a national breakdown of targets to policy reform.  

The government is eyeing to complete its housing efforts for communities affected by typhoon Haiyan—one of the strongest storms to make landfall in recent history—in December 2013. An accountability tool could help President Rodrigo Duterte improve the quality and ensure the adequacy of the rest of the housing units that will be distributed to families this year. 

El lunes 22 de agosto, el Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral (TSJE) de Paraguay, la representación de la Unión Europea en Paraguay y la Misión de IDEA Internacional se reunieron en la sede del TSJE para coordinar acciones conjuntas con miras a cooperar con el fortalecimiento institucional de la Justicia Electoral, por medio de acciones conjuntas de cooperación en temas como el control a las agrupaciones políticas en el uso de los recursos del Estado, el ingreso de dinero privado para las

On Monday, 22 August 2016, the Superior Tribunal of Electoral Justice (STEJ) of Paraguay, the European Union Delegation in Paraguay and the Mission of International IDEA, gathered at the headquarters of the STEJ to coordinate joint actions with an objective of cooperating on the institutional strengthening of the electoral organ.

STOCKHOLM—The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance’s Annual Democracy Forum will be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 25-26 August 2016 under the theme, ‘Learning from Democratic Transitions in Asia and the Pacific: An Inter-Generational Dialogue’.