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The “Transparency Wall” in Ranga Reddy village in Andhra Pradesh, India fully serves its purpose of transparency and accountability and is a great example of appropriate technology.

By Jeff Kass – Uganda Coordinator, Africa Adviser After reviewing the day’s lively email correspondence from East Africa civil society organizations ranging from progress on tracking anti malaria drug distribution, to the match up of school construction project expenditures with the resulting bricks and mortar, to the status of cases before a national anti-corruption court, [...]

By Daniel Ritchie PTF President I’ve been asked from time to time why I became interested in the issue of corruption. Having worked at the World Bank, I was aware of the corrosive effect that corruption has on economies and the real harm it does to the legitimacy of institutions and governments. But it was [...]

By:Vinay Bhargava, Chief Technical Adviser for PTF JAIPUR, INDIA–Government accountability, right to information laws as a more effective tool than bribery, youth groups exposing use of sub standard materials in road construction, pregnant women getting the benefit of hospital services without paying bribes were just a few of the cases and ideas discussed when 38 [...]

2011 has been a great year for Kenya in the areas of access to information and open data. First, in April 2011,

In October 2010, 61 Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) officers were arrested on charges related to corruption.  Specifically, the police were failing “to police sex crimes and incidents of domestic violence” and participating in “discriminatory policing practices that target individuals of Dominican descent.”  They also abused their power in conducting crowd control.  When nonviolent demonstrators [...]

Center for Social and Economic Development (CESD) has exposed a $10.4 million dollar discrepancy in government expenditures on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad project. This discovery has prompted an investigation to return money back to the Azerbaijan state budget.

India’s mass demonstrations against corruption are being widely hailed as a successful mobilization of citizenry for a common good. But the movement is far from a unified endeavor.