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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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National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors
3213 Duke Street, Suite 695, Alexandria Virginia, 22314
Vox Public
FranceVoxPublic appuie les associations et collectifs citoyens en France qui combattent les injustices sociales, les discriminations, la corruption et toute atteinte à l’État de droit.
Pro Acceso
Avenida Andres Eloy Blanco, Edificio Camara de Comercio de Caracas, Urbanizacion Los Caobos, Caracas, 1050, Venezuela
Philippines Center for Investigative Journalism
3/F Criselda II Building, 107 Scout de Guia Street, Quezon City 1104, Philippines
Transparencia Venezuela
Av Andres Eloy Blanco, Chamber of Commerce Building Caracas, Floor 2, Office 2-15, Caobos, Caracas 1050, VenezuelaTransparency International Venezuela
Project on Government Secrecy
Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists, 1725 DeSales Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20036
Transparency International UK
Transparency International UK, 32- 36 Loman Street, London, SE1 0EHTI-UK is the UK chapter of Transparency International, committed to increasing the integrity of national institutions, minimising the effect of British corruption abroad and combatting corruption within the UK.
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 200 public interest groups and trade unions concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.
DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.
The Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector (MANS)
Dalmatinska 188, Podgorica, MontenegroMANS is a non-governmental organization that fights against corruption and organized crime affecting Montenegro.
Transparency International Espana
Fundacion Ortega y Gasset-Maranon, c/ Fortuny, 53 - 28010 Madrid, Spain
Transparency International Sverige (Transparency International Sweden)
Linnegatan 14, 6th floor, 114 47 Stockholm, Sweden
Leading provider of financial analysis and commercial advice on natural resource assets for public policy.
ALTSEAN-Burma
MyanmarALTSEAN-Burma (Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma) was formed in October 1996 by a diverse network of organizations and individuals at the Alternative ASEAN Meeting on Burma, held in Bangkok.
Swish Labs delivers specialized engineering, product, and design services for entities that shape the world.
Transparency International Germany
Transparency Deutschland, Alte Schonhauser Str. 44, 10119 Berlin, Germant
After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).
Mayors of the World for a Global Cities Dialogue on the Information Society
1 Boulevard Charlemagne, c/o Foundation EurActiv PoliTech, 1041 Brussels, Belgium
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