Zambia

= = =Civil society-driven website brought into play the utilization of Facebook and Twitter to encourage ‘registered voters and interested parties to report incidents involving election-related violence, hate speech, corruption and other matters (Giren: Zeynep) = = = []

Zambia’s September 2011 presidential elections.:**The “Bantu Watch”,** a civil society-driven website brought into play the utilization of Facebook and Twitter to encourage ‘registered voters and interested parties to report incidents involving election-related violence, hate speech, corruption and other matters**’**. This initiative, which allowed citizens to participate in monitoring the electoral process, marked an unprecedented step in utilising social media to entrench citizenry engagement with the electoral system.