Some data and programmes used in and from CMEV’s election monitoring platform.
- Email updates sent during the course of the day - 15,500 via local SMTP server
- Data sent (via ADSL) - approx. 750Mb
- Data sent (via SLT 3G HSPA) - approx. 150Mb
- Data received (via ADSL) - approx. 1Gb
- Data received (via 3G HSPA) - approx. 200Mb
- Websites and services used - WordPress, Google Maps, Twitter, Internet Archive, Technorati, Reinvigorate, Facebook
- Programmes used - Quicktime 8 Pro (podcast recording), Garageband (podcast production), Safari 3.1, Firefox 3 Beta 5 (running on projector in operations room with key information), Skype, Call Recorder for Skype, Twhirl, Maxbulk Mailer
- Programmes that failed - CC Publisher (hugely unreliable and miserably slow on Leopard)
- Assumptions that failed - Didn’t get half as many SMS updates as we thought we would even though CMEV designed a superb SMS template for incident reports. Coverage of all major telcos in the East just shy of urban areas ranges from poor and intermittent to wholly non-existent. Towards evening, services became even more erratic.
- Assumptions that worked - More interest in maps than (textual) reports
- # of time my Macbook Pro / OS X crashed during the day - 0
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