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Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones

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ICT for Development Seminar Series
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India’s right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people.
India’s right to information movement demonstrated the potential to combat corruption through social audits – an exercise to share and verify public records with people. But this process requires a lot of time, skill and organisational effort – thanks to which very few audits are organised in India despite its potential. We hope to change this by creating digital tools for activists, which they can use to organise social audits continuously at low cost, and thus challenge corruption in a sustained manner. The technology involves collecting public records online, disseminating it to people via mobile phones and collecting their feedback so that the activists can redress grievances in a timely manner. I will share the progress of the project so far in this talk.

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Series
ICT for Development Seminar Series
People
Vivek Srinivasan
Keywords
ICT4D
corruption
india
right to information
public record
activists
freedom of information
census
Department: Oxford Internet Institute
Date Added: 26/03/2015
Duration: 01:02:05

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