At global meet, CEC Gyanesh Kumar offers ECINet model to help fight election misinformation

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Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, right, and Electoral Commission of Namibia chairperson Elsie Tuleingepo Nghikembua during the signing of an MoU connected  predetermination  absorption   successful  New Delhi connected  Thursday.

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, right, and Electoral Commission of Namibia chairperson Elsie Tuleingepo Nghikembua during the signing of an MoU connected predetermination absorption successful New Delhi connected Thursday. | Photo Credit: PTI

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) offered assistance to the predetermination absorption bodies of countries attending an planetary league present to assistance them make a integer instrumentality akin to the ECINet.

The ECINet app is simply a unified integer level aimed astatine enhancing elector services and providing election-related information. Mr. Kumar said specified a integer interface, customised to the section language, could beryllium utile to different countries too.

On the 2nd time of the International Conference connected Democracy and Election Management, Mr. Kumar noted that the heads of assorted canvass absorption bodies had shared their concerns during the league connected the menace of misinformation to democracy. He described ECINet as a instrumentality to antagonistic misinformation, arsenic poll-related facts are disposable connected it.

The updated ECINet will integrate implicit 40 of its existing mobile and web applications and supply a azygous level for each electoral-related activities. It aims to trim the load connected users from navigating aggregate apps and remembering antithetic login information.

Users tin entree electoral information connected their desktops oregon smartphones. To guarantee that information is arsenic close arsenic possible, immoderate input connected the level is entered solely by authorised officials of the Election Commission. In lawsuit of immoderate conflict, the superior information arsenic duly filled successful statutory forms volition prevail.

The ECINET will subsume existing apps similar the Voter Helpline App, Voter Turnout App, cVIGIL, Suvidha and Saksham, which unneurotic person clocked over 5.5 crore downloads.

Published - January 22, 2026 10:48 p.m. IST

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