The electronic transmission of EC8A results from the BVAS (at the polling station) to the IReV portal is fundamental to electoral credibility.
Real-time result visibility, strengthened data integrity, and measurable improvement in public trust can easily be achieved with a National Election Transmission Resilience Architecture (NETRA)
NETRA is built upon
- Multi-operator(MNOs) redundancy
- Dedicated election APN prioritization
- Encrypted store-and-forward protocols
- Regional Edge computing
- Real-time network monitoring
- Cloud-scale backend hardening
The turnkey delivery of NETRA (from planning to implementation and testing) requires between 6months to 9months for INEC to be ready before the 2027 general elections
Verifiable use case for real-time election transmission is the Kenya by-elections conducted since 2009, the Kenya 2010 Constitutional referendum, and their recent general elections.
Nigeria, a country that is endowed with some of the leading Telcos (MTN, Glo, Airtel, etc.), Towercos (IHS, ATC, etc.), Satellite, Broadband, Data centers, and Fibre network providers on the African continent, has the intellectual and technical capability with no excuse to implement a credible, free, and fair real-time electronically transmitted election
by Dr. Fidelis Igbokwe (Telecommunications & ICT specialist)
