Google has unveiled a brand-new website called the Nigeria Elections Trends Hub in support of the upcoming 2023 presidential elections. This website gives Nigerians a platform to search for and learn about trending topics pertaining to the presidential and vice presidential candidates, parties, and issues.
The page, which can be accessed on the Google Trends website https://goo.gle/NigeriaElectionTrends, allows users to compare the search popularity of the presidential candidates and trending questions being asked about them.
The portal features maps and graphs displaying the search interest for the candidates over a period of 30 days.
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This is a part of a broader Google initiative to support the elections in 2023, which also includes training for new and media publishers on how to use YouTube effectively to tell election stories and training from the Google News Lab to assist journalists in learning how to use search and other Google tools for better storytelling, including data visualisation, verification, and fact-checking.
As Nigeria celebrates 24 years of Democracy in the upcoming elections, Google’s mission to organise and make the world’s information universally accessible and useful is more relevant than ever.
Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and Public Affairs Manager for West Africa noted;
We want Nigerians to be empowered with information during the upcoming elections, so we’re organising information to make it easy for voters to learn more about the candidates through the eyes of Google Trends.
More accessible and useful political information improves the political process and leads to greater citizen participation.
The Nigeria Elections Trends Hub will help voters make more informed decisions at the polls, and have a greater voice in the political process.
Kola-Ogunlade added;
We’re empowering voters so that they are not simply watching from afar, but participating, engaging with and shaping the political process in a democratic way.
Google is committed to making search useful for Nigerians, and the Nigeria Elections Trends Hub is one of many initiatives that we are undertaking to support the 2023 elections, including training for new and media publishers and support for journalists, to help them tell more engaging stories.
For more information, visit https://goo.gle/NigeriaElectionTrends
