Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) is the\nlargest association of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) worldwide. A-WEB was\nestablished on October 14, 2013 in Song-do, South Korea. The permanent\nsecretariat of A-WEB is located at Seoul. A-WEB\u2019s vision is to foster\nefficiency and effectiveness in conducting free, fair, transparent and\nparticipative elections worldwide. Its activities are guided by its mission to\nidentify latest trends, challenges and developments in democratic electoral\nmanagement and electoral processes and to facilitate appropriate exchange of\nexperience and expertise among members with the objective of strengthening\nelectoral democracy worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Election Commission of India has been very closely\nassociated with the process of formation of A-WEB since 2011-12. ECI has been\nits Executive Board Member since AWEB’s inception in October 2013 for two\nconsecutive terms (2013-15 and 2015-17). At the last A-WEB General Assembly\nheld in Bucharest on 31st August, 2017, Romania took over as Chair and ECI was\nunanimously elected as Vice-Chair of A-WEB 2017-19. India is all set to take\nover as Chair now for the 2019-21 term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At present A-WEB has 115 EMBs as Members & 20 Regional\nAssociations\/Organisations as Associate Members. 24 EMBs from Asia, 37 from\nAfrica, 31 from America, 17 from Europe & 6 from Oceania presently are\nmembers of A WEB. ECI will continue to remain on the Executive Board of A-WEB\nfor 2021-23 in its capacity as immediate former Chair of A-WEB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current Executive Board of AWEB 2017-19 has 21 members\nwherein Dominican Republic as the Immediate Past Chair; 5 members from Africa\nnamely Burkina Faso\/Guinea\/Kenya\/Malawi\/Tunisia; 4 members from Americas\n-Argentina\/Colombia\/El Salvador\/Paraguay; 4 members from Asia –\nBangladesh\/Palestine\/Taiwan\/Uzbekistan; 3 members from Europe –\nAlbania\/Belarus\/Croatia and Fiji as the member from Oceania are included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over 120 Participants from more than 50 countries across the\nglobe will join the AWEB events scheduled in Bengaluru from 02nd to 04th\nSeptember, 2019. By far this is the largest congregation of EMB delegates in\nIndia. Meeting of the Executive Board of A-WEB will be held on 02 Sep. 2019;\nNext day on Tuesday, the 3rd September, General Assembly of A-WEB will be held\nwhere India will take over as Chair of A-WEB for 2019-2021 term. Chief Election\nCommissioner of India Sh Sunil Arora would preside over the General Assembly\nmeeting. Detailed deliberations at the A-WEB General Assembly include\ndiscussion on Challenges and future of furthering partnership amongst EMBs;\nappointment of office bearers; programmes and activities to be undertaken by\nA-WEB during 2020, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the 4th of September, an International Conference on\n\u201cInitiatives and Challenges of Social Media and Information Technology in\nElections” will be held. Eleven countries namely Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia –\nHerzegovina, Cameroon, Malawi, Mauritius, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Sierra\nLeone and Togo would make their presentations on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A-WEB was founded with the shared vision among its members\nof achieving sustainable democracy around the world. A-WEB aims at\nstrengthening the processes of election management in member countries. Since,\nits inception A-WEB has undertaken election ICT Programmes in various countries\nlike Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Fiji, Papua Guinea and Samoa. A-WEB also\nundertakes Election Visitor and Observation Programmes in various countries to\nstudy various election management practices and share knowledge with other\nMember of EMBs. The association has organized such EVPs to Bosnia &\nHerzegovina, Ecuador. The A-WEB Secretariat also undertakes Election Management\nCapacity Building Programme for the officials from Member EMBs. Since 2014, it\nhas conducted more than 89 programmes for over 645 participants from over 70\ncountries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Election Commission of India is scheduled to host the 4th General Assembly of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) at Bengaluru on 3rd September 2019. India will take over as A-WEB\u2019s Chair for the 2019-21 term. Over 50 countries across the globe will join the meeting at Bengaluru from 02nd to 04th September, 2019. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[717],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-world-election-bodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}