Meet Master Sebastian Kofi Afadzie-C.E.O Of Ghvoteonline.Com

The emergence of Information Technology is fast producing a lot of changes especially in this 21st Century as most of our youth are fighting with all their might to go into technological entrepreneurship. A lot of these young ones are also taking advantage of the advent of information technology to come out with mind blowing innovations that had changed lives and continue to change lives in diverse ways.

Most of these young talented men and women came up with some websites and mobile applications that helped in making certain jobs easier or everyday activities easier due to the nature of their applications. Most of them introduced countless websites and mobile applications that will make you go crazy.

We have the likes of Ethel Coffie, the C.E.O of Edel Technologies; Alex Adjei Bram, the General Manager of SMSGH, Anthony Angmor, Lecturer and engineering technologist with over 13 years in the Information technology industry among many others. These are all great men who are well vested in technological entrepreneurship and achieved magnificent results in their field of work. Most of them narrated their capabilities when Citi Fm recently held the first ever Citi Business Festival at the Ghana Telecom University on the topic, “Technology Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century”.

The latest dude who is determined and trying to bring some mind blowing changes to the Ghana electoral system with his new website and mobile application is the twenty-five (24) year old Sebastian Kofi Afadzie.

The 24 year old Sebastian Kofi Afadzie is a former student of Takoradi secondary school. Currently, he is a level 200 student of the BlueCrest University College where he is pursuing his Bachelor of Science in information technology.

Master Sebastian also served as an intern at the information technology (I.T) department of Joy fm, a subsidiary of the Multimedia Group.

According to Master Sebastian, he had never voted during any election before in this country. This is not because he don't feel like voting to elect leaders for this country rather the frustrating standing and the long queue he has to join before voting. This he considers absurd and appalling.

He said there are many people like him who find the current electoral process cumbersome and do not also vote as well. This notwithstanding, it is the wish of every Tom, Dick and Harry to exercise their franchise.

Master Sebastian, in his determination to find solution to the current system of voting decided to come up with an idea to salvage our electoral system. “Since age 18, I have never voted before although I don't consider it to be a big deal but whenever it is time to vote, the long queue prevent me from voting. This was my major problem since I was 18years. I one day discussed this problem with one of my friends called Christian, an Ivorian and decided to come up with something. “He said

Mahama as he is affectionately called by his colleagues on campus believes artificial intelligence is a powerful technique to solve modern problems.

Sebastian considering all the above and in trying to find solution was able to create www.ghvoteonline.com and its mobile application.

www.Ghvoteonline.com is a portal that features all the various political parties. The website allow electorates or citizens to vote in the comfort of their homes, offices, the hospital, market, farm, outside the country etcetera; irrespective of where they find themselves. You can vote and see the result yourself. It will also shock you to the bone that most people do not vote because of long queue they have to join.

The website also allow Ghanaians staying outside Ghana to vote with ease. Since the website is currently on test, he decided to make it simple for everyone to test it by logging onto the website to vote. One of the amazing things about the website is that, he has used his programming skills to animate all the political parties on the website this can be seen by hovering and clicking on their emblems.

Another feature about the site that Ghanaians will love is that besides seeing the result after voting, you also get the chance to see the number of votes from all the ten (10) regions in Ghana and also have the chance to see number of students, workers and unemployed under all the ten regions that actually voted.

He said “the E-voting idea will not only ensure free and fair elections but also transparent, easy, and convenient election”. Mahama also states if the government approves his E- voting system for the country, it will not only ensure free and fair election but the same technology can be used to conduct population Census and other statistical assignments in the future.

With www.ghvoteonline.com, you get the opportunity to vote with either your computer, tablet, laptop or even your phone irrespective of your locations as far as you a Ghanaian.

This system of voting is currently being practiced by some countries like Switzerland, Norway, Romania, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Belgium, Canada many more. Ghana as a country can also get there.

You can log on to www.ghvoteonline. com to access the website and as part of testing the authenticity of the website, you are free to vote for any political party of your choice and leave a comment about your experience with ghvoteonline.com and how best he can improve it.

Master Sebastian is also calling on all stakeholders to join hands with him to make this project a success.

Felix Kwaku-Dua/ www.felixkwakudua.com