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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 Panama
Transparency International Philippines
2/F WILOCI Building, Manila Lions Road, Arroceros, Manila, Philippines
Open Knowledge Foundation Japan
Harks Roppongi Bldg. 2nd floor, 6-15-21 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
The Lebanese Transparency Association
Sami El Solh Avenue, Manhattan Building, 6th Floor, Badaro, Beirut, PO Box 50-552, Lebanon
Transparency International Netherlands
Secretariat, Transparency International Netherlands, Benoordenhoutseweg 23, 2596 BA The Hague, Netherlands
Transparence France
Transparency International France, 14, passage Dubail - 75010 ParisTransparency International France
Open Data UAE
Building Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the intersection of Al Falah Street with Al Salam Street, Abu Dhabi
The Open Gov Source Consortium
OpenGOVSource, 2650 West Montrose Avenue, Suite 205, Chicago, IL 60618
Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).
Citizens Police Data Project
Chicago, ILThe Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve. By Invisible Institute
Transparency International - Albania
Blv.Gjergj Fishta P."Projekt 2000" Kulla 5, Tirana, AlbaniaTransparency International chapter
Make big decisions better. Ethelo is an online group decision-making platform that enables communities to solve complex problems.
Place Speak
New City Ventures, Attn: PlaceSpeak, 1005 Cypress Street, Vancouver, BC, V6J 3K5, CANADA
The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) is a non-profit, non-partisan research center that researches and acts on evidence to solve the most important challenges in Mexico.
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