CEPPS 2024-2025 - Digital challenges in election processes
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The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strenghening (CEPPS) will implement a one year project called "Digital Challenges to Elections". The ambition is that results from the pilot - that to some extent builds on existing programming, networks, capacities and resources- could have continuity in a new project, and/or through CEPPS regular operations...
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The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strenghening (CEPPS) will implement a one year project called "Digital Challenges to Elections". The ambition is that results from the pilot - that to some extent builds on existing programming, networks, capacities and resources- could have continuity in a new project, and/or through CEPPS regular operations and through partnerships with other actors. Overall project objective: To develop and pilot approaches to enhance the capacity of electoral stakeholders to understand, monitor, and address digital threats, including addressing the challenges of GenAI in electoral processes, while protecting citizen's rights. Outcome 1: Improved ability of the democracy and governance community to address the challenges of GenAi for elections. Outcome 2: Improved strategies to enhance the resilience of the digital information environment during elections. Output 1.1: Study presented as visual typography of trends around GenAI tools on electoral processes and outcomes Output 1.2: Technical guidance document including a monitoring framework for how citizen election observers can monitor GenAI use in elections Output 1.3: Events and workshops delivered to disseminate reports and other products and train electoral stakeholders. Output 2.1: Research produced on risks to free expression in elections and analysis of MDM laws. Output 2.2: Improved tooling options for election observers monitoring the online information environment. Output 2.3 Guidebook for how citizen election observers can monitor personal data protection, collection and misuse in elections. Activity 1.1: Assessing the role of GenAI in election interference. Activity 1.2: Develop frameworks for monitoring GenAI in elections. Activity 1.3 Training on enhancing citizen-led monitoring of digital threats to elections. Acitivity 2.1: Assessing Electoral Management Body (EMB) approaches to preserving information integrity and freedom of expression. Activity 2.2: Develop online election monitoring tools for dynamic threats. Activity 2.3: Training on combatting the misuse of voters personal data in elections.
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The project intends to address common challenges facing electoral stakeholders and democratic institutions such as: 1) the profileration of disinformation and AI-driven manipulation, and related social polarization and decline in citizen´s trust in the electoral process; 2) digital security threats to election officials, civil society and journalists; and 3) deficits in knowledge, capacity, and resources to address this issues. The project proposal hence has the following overall objective: "To develop and pilot approaches to enhance the capacity of electoral stakeholders to understand, monitor, and address digital threats, including addressing the challenges of GenAI in electoral processes, while protecting citizen´s rights." It has two overall outcomes: 1. Improved ability of the democracy and governance community to leverage, and address the challenges of GenAI for elections. 2. Improved strategies to enhance the resilience of the digital information environment during elections. The theory of change behind the Digital Challenges to Elections pilot project according to CEPPS proposal is the following; "IF electoral stakeholders have the knowledge to better understand the threats posed by emerging technologies such as GenAI and dis-, mis- and malinformation, as well as the tools and resources to monitor and address those threats, THEN these stakeholders will be able to proactively identify and counter digital threats in real-time, THUS strenghening the conditions for free and fair elections."
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