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Combatting Corruption with Mobile Phones

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Duration: 1:02:04 | Added: 26 Mar 2015
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Duration: 1:02:04 | Added: 26 Mar 2015
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 organizational effort – thanks to which very few audits are organized in India despite its potential. We hope to change this by creating digital tools for activists, which they can use to organize 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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