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I think that IAC may be willing to team up with CGOV on the issue of fighting corruption through technology:
there is some evidence technology is also helping sidestep systemic bureaucratic corruption that is often rife in developing countries.
With backhand payments sometimes required for the simplest transactions, direct access to documents and government agencies is frustrating unofficial middlemen.
A government form that's downloadable from an internet kiosk rather than printed out by someone vulnerable to a bribe is a basic example of how open access can fight corruption. [Source]
CGOV should perhaps provide access to various government documents, or at least links to them. Any thoughts on this?
I'd like to invite EVERYONE (from anywhere in the world) to participate in developing a technology model that bridges the distance between the Indian citizen and the government.
Check out cgov.in which is under development, but has been tested and found to work. Right now we are working on the pilot phase, but this is only the beginning.
Let's use technology in the most creative way possible to close the governance gap in India.
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Dear Sanjeevji,
I think the idea of “duty to publish” must be explored further where by the onus is on government agencies to publish the data that they hold instead of citizens asking for data through RTI. Technology is already there to facilitate/enforce this. I sincerely think that this one idea if turned into a proper legislation can bring a lot of transparency to governance.
Jai Hind.
Sure, Anil. Sounds good to me. Just what should be published, though – that’s a hard question to address. But some principles would be useful if you can work on this.
Sanjeev–
A suggestion on the use of social media: Have you thought of expanding your presence to identi.ca? It is a twitter-like microblogging platiform.
The one advantage which you can readily use is the facility for groups. You can create groups on identi.ca and you can send your tweet (“dent” in identi.ca) to the group which will send it to all the member of the group.
e.g. if group name is IndiaFreedom and it has members longname1 and longname2 then you can send a tweet in the following way:
[code]!indiafreedom [/code]
And both longname1 and longname2 will receive your tweet (instead of you having to write [code]@longname1 @longname2 [/code])
This way you can also keep make sure that tweets belonging to different topics only go to the relevant people.
Also: You can also link your identi.ca account to your twitter account so that all your tweets on identi.ca are also posted in twitter automatically.