In THe NEws

Efter kraftig kritik lämnar Stockholmsbaserade IDEA samarbetet kring den mobilapp som inför valet i Myanmar bland annat listat rohingyakandidaters etnicitet som ”bengali”.

A Myanmar election app backed by foreign funding, including an organization supported by the Canadian government, is “clearly discriminatory” toward the country’s persecuted Rohingya population, the former head of a United Nations fact-finding mission says.

With under a month until the election, controversy is swirling amid criticisms over the mVoter 2020 app, a mobile app intended to educate voters on candidates and parties developed by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) under the EU funded STEP Democracy programme.

Für die Wahlen in Myanmar, die am 8. November stattfinden werden, wurde kürzlich die App „mVoter 2020“ vorgestellt, in der Informationen zu allen Kandidierenden abrufbar sind. See English here.

Den hårt kritiserade appen ”mVoter2020” i Myanmar är bara en digitalisering av existerande register och IDEA har inte använt EU-pengar för att utveckla den. Det säger Marcus Brand, IDEA:s landchef i Myanmar, till OmVärlden.

Myanmar’s election commission has released a smartphone app criticised over its use of a derogatory label for Rohingya Muslims despite entreaties by its European Union funders to remove controversial data.

En mobilapp i Myanmar har fått kritik för att inför valet riskera att elda på rasistiskt våld och nationalism. Appen lyfter fram kandidaternas etnicitet och religion.

The donors behind an election app that provides information about candidates’ race and religion are facing renewed criticism, this time for trying to wash their hands of responsibility for problems with the project.

不過，緬甸社運團體 Justice for Myanmar 指出，mVoter2020 會在候選人的傳記中特別突出種族和宗教信仰，其中也包括候選人父母的種族和宗教信仰。

Myanmar’s electoral process is undermined by systemic problems and rights abuses that will deprive people of their right to fairly elect their government, Human Rights Watch said today.