{{Google will stream live Kenya\u2019s presidential debate series through its video-sharing channel; in an effort to promote online election monitoring.}}<\/p>\n
The firm will next week launch a Kenyan elections channel on YouTube as a platform to follow the latest news and trends on the political scene, and engage with each other.<\/p>\n
Google has partnered with Storyful, an Ireland-based social media news agency to select and organise video content related to the forthcoming March 4 poll.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll our initiatives around the elections are aimed at organising information to make it easy to reach,\u201d said Ms Ory Okolloh, Google policy manager for Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cInformation drives the decisions we make on a day-to-day basis, and we remain committed to and are keen on sharing as much of it as possible with Kenyans,\u201d said Ms Okolloh.<\/p>\n
Kenya\u2019s first-ever presidential debate that will bring together all the eight candidates will be held on February 11 and the second one two weeks later.<\/p>\n
The channel brings together all the news, views and grassroots reporting from the Kenyan election trail in one convenient online portal, with playlists capturing some of the most important democratic themes.<\/p>\n
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