The software formed a key part of monitoring the Nigerian Presidential elections in 2007 where citizens fed back on polling activity, the first time that civilians have been able to monitor an African election. In fact,the range of applications for FrontlineSMS is pretty extensive and really only held back by the imagination, and need, of its users. As a means of making mass communication cheap, fast and simple it’s first class and is now in use in over 40 countries.
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"We want to set a precedent," said Emauwa Nelson of the Human Emancipation Lead Project, a Nigerian NGO that helped set up the project."We want people to know that if they are trying to rig the election, there could be someone behind them and that person may send a text message saying what happened."
