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PNG TECH KUMULSOFT PUTS ITS HAND UP TO FIX ELECTORAL COMMON ROLL 

By Big Pat

A PNG Software Development Company is putting its hand up to develop a software that will solve the country's common roll and voting issues.
 
Kumulsoft co-founder Paul Muingnepe said in a social media post that his company is available to help the government with a variety of software applications that can ease many of the problems that cause bottlenecks in goods and service delivery.
 
He said that in this day and age of digital transformation through innovations, Kumulsoft can develop customized software that can make voting as simple as 1,2,3 from home.
 
"We can eliminate paper ballots by introducing online voting," he said.
 
"As a PNG tech company, we have the expertise and technology to introduce software that can change voting in our country.
 
"We are ready to help eliminate all the problems we face and have faced at the ballot box in the last 47 years since independence.
 

Kumulsoft founders Marsh Nawarec and Paul Muingnepe.

"We can do it.  Come 2027, we should have a system which will ensure your name is on an online common roll with your own fingerprint for security, you can vote easily as the system will be user friendly, and the results can be automatically tallied from a central tally system.

 
"No need for an army of workers, ballot boxes, counting. No-one can steal or destroy ballot papers or ballot boxes, It will all be computerized."
 
Mr Muingnepe said Kumulsoft is 100 percent capable of developing any system so long as the government equally funds the development.
  
"We developed two software products already and they are on the market now. These are: the Kumulsoft Fixed Assets Management System currently used by government departments to manage their fixed assets, and the Success Legal Billing System is used by Law Firms to generate their bills.
 
"Papua New Guineans are more than capable of achieving this but the government must believe in its local software developers and fully support PNG owned tech companies," he said.

Mount Hagen Hospital training.

Campaign and polling has just ended in a chaotic national general elections and counting progresses this week.

Already a few hundred people have died or suffered injuries in clashes between supporters while government and public property have been destroyed.

The national general elections has been described as the worst in the nation's history.

The Common Roll was a major issue with many voters turning only to find out their names were not registered which led to frustrations that boiled over into attacks on polling teams.

In many polling stations, there were not enough ballots for voters.

In worse case scenarios, there were clear cut cases of bribery, vote buying, double voting and threats against polling teams.

Prime Minister James Marape was the first MP declared after polling a landslide first preference vote.

Mr Muingnepe said all these issues can be eliminated by online voting.

Kumulsoft was awarded the 2018 MSME award for Digital Innovative company.

The founders with the 2018 MSME award for Digital Innovation.