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Awafong's picture
10 weeks 10 hours ago
Julius Awafong was invited on Radio Tiemeni Siantou during the 24 years of the CPDM as the governing party in Cameroon. Learn more by listening to the show.
Awafong's picture
10 weeks 3 days ago
What is Vote Sizing, Julius Awafong and Kindo tell the Yaounde public to embrace Vote Sizing as the real tool to reduce corruption.
Awafong's picture
10 weeks 3 days ago
What is Votesizing and how necessary is it for Cameroon in particular and  Africa in general? Julius Awafong of Vote Sizing and Kindo of RTS in Yaounde, elaborated on these questions.
Awafong's picture
12 weeks 3 days ago
Julius Awafong uses avocado fruits to explain the art of democratic reform.  We urgently need a democratic reform, because I think this powerful/wealthy few, who have used their enourmous power to take upon themselves the control of the cockpit of this planet, are blindly heading directly to crash with another WTC in the middle of the universe.
Awafong's picture
17 weeks 6 days ago
Julius Awafong participated in this debate and tried to explain to the audience how we badly need Vote Sizing to eradicate the massive corruption which has not only become a way of life but has also transformed abnormal  to normal, has rendered immoral acts moral, illegal things legal... "it is no news to hear that someone has embezzled, rather it is news to hear that someone has not embezzled" (Shifu Ngalla).
Awafong's picture
17 weeks 6 days ago
The Yaounde based Women's Association "LEAN ON ME" invited Julius Awafong, to open their meeting with an educative topic - "Fighting STRESS". Being in a society where life is becoming harder and harder thereby promoting stress, Julius found a way of saying how VOTE SIZING can make life more comfortable for human beings, thereby reducing the causes of stress.
29 weeks 2 days ago
My students, here in Italy, were questioned about a unit called CLIL. Learning history using a second language, in this case English. The topic was Henry VIII and his wives. The goal of the review was to decide if going on with the same experience. Even if the students disagree with going on, they admit that clil method is good to remember some historical topics for they say they remeber Henry VIII more than other topics. The less performing students find this method more difficult than the other students but this is understandable.
Awafong's picture
30 weeks 5 days ago
Here we are in a little village of Cameroon. Just like many other villages around the world, Early Marriage has shown the weakness of present day Democratic Governments. "The Government can't solve all problems" - some people think. But, one can easily figure out that, Government is powerfully able to help the wealthy rig elections, render the majority voiceless, promote misery, maintain the wealthy in power, widen the gap between the rich and poor, promote corruption and give a blind eye to the basic necessities of Human Beings.
PattyB's picture
31 weeks 2 days ago
Cameroonians who can afford to buy tap water wait in line
SteveG's picture
32 weeks 2 days ago
This is a simple demonstration of the different results given for different formulas. Here's how the students voted:
Awafong's picture
32 weeks 5 days ago
While acknowledging that the former Ministers of the Economy and Finance, Polycarpe Abah Abah, and Public Health, Urbain Olanguena Awono, could be guilty of misappropriation of public funds, the primary motive of their arrests, beyond reasonable doubt, rests on differing political ideologies in a regime that nourishes dearth of a democracy of opinion.
Awafong's picture
32 weeks 5 days ago
As President Paul Biya scrambles to figure out how to curb corruption and embezzlement of state funds, the disenfranchised poor, working and middle class Cameroonians, who are the immediate and most affected by corruption, consider themselves mere spectators of this choreographed fight.
SteveG's picture
33 weeks 4 days ago
Each voter gets one vote, and then the second vote is notched down according to the voter's measurement.
SteveG's picture
33 weeks 4 days ago
Votes are weighted inversely to the amount of the voter's relative measurement.
SteveG's picture
33 weeks 4 days ago
My personal favorite - defines an arc (ie: line arcing from 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock. Puts all voters equal distance from the (0,0) point; but doesn't take into consideration if the constituency changes their habits over time.
SteveG's picture
33 weeks 4 days ago
The higher the voter's relative 'standing', the larger vote. The differences can be quite substantial when some voters have a much higher achievement than others.
SteveG's picture
33 weeks 4 days ago
Pretty simple - everyone gets 1 vote.
SteveG's picture
33 weeks 4 days ago
Here is a (temporary) google video to walk you through the process of downloading, taking, and analyzing vote sized surveys.
Awafong's picture
33 weeks 5 days ago
In the Cameroonian town of Bamenda, Radio Hot Cocoa with its "If Na You" show hosts, could not miss the opportunity of getting Julius share with their listeners the Vote Sizing message of real Democracy. This show is done in the local language called "Pidgin English" because it is out touch the majority who are used to speaking it. Listen!!
Awafong's picture
33 weeks 6 days ago
Julius and Nene Tchako of Community Radio Nkambe had a heated debate on the importance of VOTE SIZING in the fight against the high tide of corruption that's dragging the image of Cameroon in mud.
SteveG's picture
34 weeks 6 days ago
This is a sample/example of the possibilities of putting vote sizing in the school classroom, and modifying the curriculum based on what the students, including the poorer performing students, might want. Here is a short-cut to the xls file: Vote Sized Survey - Example.xls.