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Hackers use technology to fight corruption

5 October 2012 in People power, Technology

Watch out! Internet connections worldwide might be slower this weekend! This weekend hundreds of hackers, programmers, designers and anti-corruption experts and activists in Bogotá, Budapest, Casablanca, Jakarta, Moscow and Vilnius will come together this weekend to develop new ICT tools that can help citizens monitor government and report corruption. Websites like ipaidabribe.com in India and […]

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Anti-Corruption Research Paper Competition Open for Submissions

9 September 2011 in Measurement and Research

Farzana Nawaz is a Programme Coordinator for the Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) at Transparency international. If the experience of the anti-corruption community over the last 20 years has taught us anything, it’s that corruption is a nearly ubiquitous, multi-faceted problem and that fighting it is a complicated endeavour. Great progress has been made over the […]

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Non-cash payment solutions to avoid corruption

22 June 2010 in Technology, Water

Sometimes it’s the easy solutions that could turn out to be effective in reducing bribery and corruption. Take one of the most common forms of corruption: bribing the police (as found in the Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Barometer, the police is the institution people are most likely to bribe. Almost a quarter of people […]

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