Exercising your franchise during elections to the Kerala Assembly next month is being made citizen-friendly, thanks to technological intervention.

The mobile governance project of the Kerala State IT Mission will come in as a handy platform for Technopark-based MobME Wireless Solutions to introduce a new service by which citizens can check individual voter ID details by just sending an SMS.

What one should do

Voters just need to text ELE<space>voter ID Number to 537252 and to get details regarding his or her voter status details and polling station.

The service is available across all telecom service providers in the State, a company spokesman said here on Tuesday.

Apart from providing the voter ID details, the service would also direct the voter to the polling booth where he or she would need to exercise franchise.

This would preclude the need for depending on external sources, as is the case now, for availing oneself of the required information.

In future, this solution may also help citizen to avoid the wait for political parties to issue the voter slip that guides him to the assigned polling booth.

ACCESS PROVIDED

“The Chief Electoral Officer and the Alappuzha and Kozhikode Collectorates have been provided access to the m-governance platform for sending election related messages to key officials,” says Mr Sanjay Vijayakumar, Chief Executive Officer, MobME.

The project has won for MobME the Nasscom (National Association for Software and Service Companies) Innovation Award for Market Facing Innovation for 2011.

MobME is a key player in the mobile value-added services space with live systems across the length and breadth of the country.

The company serves leading telecom operators in the country with their wide range of innovative platforms, effective solutions and managed services that have always ensured maximum return on investment for their clients, a company spokesman said.

The company's in-depth understanding of the telecom ecosystem also enables it to deliver solutions to enterprise customers through multiple products and services.

MobME is emerging as a key player in m-governance initiatives which help in delivering Government services through the mobile phone, he added.

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