Civic Tech Field Guide
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Technologies that seek to provide greater visibility to the activities of governments, corporations, or individuals in power and allow others to monitor them.
Suggested reading:
- Technology is not a quick fix solution for corruption, by Melissa Tsungai Zisengwe. She writes from a South African perspective but the takeaways are broadly applicable to the whole genre of anti-corruption tech. (2020)
- In The Future of Promise Tracking Jordan Urban and Adam Feldman, co-founders of govtracker.co.uk, explain what promise trackers are and how to build a meaningful one. (2018)
- Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation is a published research paper that finds that simply evaluating elected officials on the fulfillment of every miscellaneous promise made while campaigning isn’t helpful, because voters weigh certain promises as more central to the campaign than others. The authors suggest weighting promise centrality when evaluating the campaign’s fidelity. By Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Jordan Urban, and Adam Feldman. (2018)
- Jameela Raymond of Transparency International discusses the Impacts of anti-corruption pledge trackers at The Impacts of Civic Tech Conference. (2018)
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Transparency International India
Transparency International India, Qr. No. 4, Lajpat Bhawan, Lajpat Nagar - IV, New Delhi - 110 024
Transparency International Georgia
26, Rustaveli Ave, 0109, Tbilisi, GeorgiaTransparency International chapter
Accion Ciudadana
Avenida Reforma 12-01 zona 10, Edificio Reforma Montufar, nivel 17 oficina 1701, GuatemalaTransparency International Guatemala
Transparency International Slovakia
TI Slovakia, Bajkalska 25, 827 18 Bratislava, Slovenska RepublikaTransparency International chapter
Transparency International Switzerland
Transparency International Switzerland, Schanzeneckstrasse 25, PO Box 8509, CH-3001, Bern, Switzerland
Transparency International Mongolia
Bayanzurkh District, Peace Avenue 24, Building of Mercy Corps, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2nd floor, Rooms 206-207
Transparency International Australia
TI Australia TI Australia PO Box 41 Blackburn South VIC 3130 Australia
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