Roman Udot

Roman Udot is a co-chairman of the Golos Movement, a Russian election monitoring organization that has been surviving several waves of governmental crackdown since 2011.

With experience of civil resistance dating back to anti-coup rallies of 1991, Roman can share some real-life examples how new technologies have helped Golos to keep up the nonpartisan election observation in harsh environment, from organization and coordination of activists, to passing through police searches and raids, to collection, processing of the gathered data, revealing the fraud and finally to dissemination of the findings to the public at home and abroad.