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Thanks Edith. <br>
I came across this list of open government initiatives developed by
citizens
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shareable.net/blog/the-worlds-top-10-gov-20-initiatives">http://shareable.net/blog/the-worlds-top-10-gov-20-initiatives</a>).
Thought it would give inspiration to our developers and
institutions.<br>
<br>
<strong>-The Australian Government</strong> their open government
policy framework through initiatives like the government 2.0 task
force, they even have a gov 2.0 primer, which puts policy ideas and
principles into action and providing examples of where and how
agencies can engage with the public and release more data online.”<br>
<strong>-SeeClickFix</strong>: a map-based citizen reporting
platform that enables the public to report and track non-emergency
related issues via web and mobile. Co-founder Ben Berkowitz
developed the idea after getting frustrated with city hall’s lack of
response to graffiti in his local neighbourhood. Governments can
access a dashboard to acknowledge outstanding issues and close the
loop with constituents. The service is similar to the UK site
fixmystreet built by open government pioneers mysociety.
<p><strong>-Manor Labs</strong> innovative use of online services.
has run a gov 2.0 makeover for the City of De Leon and documented
the steps to enable other local towns to emulate its efforts in
municipal government innovation.<br>
<b>-Crisis Commons</b>: CrisisCamp movement of volunteers who
collaborate to develop open tools and aggregate crisis data to
assist response organisations in civil incident management. <br>
<strong>-Ushahidi</strong> first developed to map reports of
violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning
of 2008. The site has grown to become an important resource for
citizen journalists in times of crisis like the haiti earth quake,
etc. It <a href="http://vimeo.com/17863608" target="_blank"></a>
provides tools for communities to crowdsource real-time
information using SMS, email, Twitter and the web.
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<p><strong>-Wikileaks</strong>: has changed the Gov 2.0 game by
exposing governments and world leaders to the powerful forces of
radical transparency and giving citizens access to a body of
evidence that can be used to scrutinise critical decisions made in
our name.<br>
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<p>best<br>
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<p>Alice<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2">Alice/Bwana
Ndemo,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">I can't agree with
you more that ICTs can make a difference in addressing
poor governance.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Alice you raise a
critical issue about digital disparity while Bwana Ndemo
points to convergence of all ICT medium to allow all to
participate including via sms which can help reduce this
disparity. The greatest challenge is to converge all media
and also incorporate multilingual capability...people must
be able to express themselves in the langauge they are
comfortable in.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font
face="tahoma">With </font>AgendaYetu platform
we attempted this - I must say it's not easy! So I join
Bwana Ndemo in challenging the techies to come up with a
fully converged mulitlingual platform that will mobilize
ALL Kenyans to fight graft! and demand for governance
reforms and monitor implementation of Agenda 4.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">See attached some
interesting research findings of work IDRC funded on how
Kenyans are using ICTs in the governance field (within the
context of Agenda 4). It includes what their thoughts are
on how ICTs can be used to fight corruption. This research
was done after the post - election violence and just
before the promulgation of the constitution in 2010. Read
the section on "what did we find" after you've quickly
perused the background of the study.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">So, I believe it's
possible to mobilize Kenyans around a platform to fight
corruption. which agency is ready to take the lead?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Edith</font></div>
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On Behalf Of Alice Munyua [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 May 2011 21:26<br>
<b>To:</b> Edith Adera<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Governance debates Online -
Using ICT to fight graft<br>
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<div>Agree a great idea. As social media enables participation
access, collaboration and even transparency and has great
potential to enhance governance processes by way of
facilitating participation from broad based
stakeholders/constituencies. Some of the features can be
used/applied to many aspects of governance, including
feedback on anti corruption initiatives, maintaining
participation, direct involvement in policy processes,
deliberations, etc.
<br>
<br>
However, there are some fundamental limitations we must
keep in mind and deal with. To begin with, the disparity
in internet access with social media services still reflects
an education and/or class bias. Additionally, folks tend to
join most networks as a means to an end, for example joining
some lists knowing that they are more likely to get the ear
of the service provider and/or government and this over
reliance would in the long run ends up undermining efforts
that require commitment and follow through, for those who
have been members of this list will bear witness to this
particularly when it comes to policy processes.
<br>
<br>
So are social networks the magic bullet to participation?
I also tend to think that social media sites have not really
been developed for governance in the way we may be
thinking, for example face book has a person cap, further,
most of these sites were designed in ways to encourage
participation to serve advertising revenue so perhaps we
would need our very talented developers/skunks etc to begin
to think about developing Social media platforms suited to
our governance, anti corruption etc needs. A good example
remains ushaidi.<br>
<br>
Best<br>
<br>
Alice<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">This is actually a brilliant idea.
Especially aggregating information on Social Media
platforms. We already have some companies (e.g.
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gotissuez.com"
target="_blank">www.gotissuez.com</a>) who report on
such matters (corruption, poor service etc). We
additionally have social media monitoring platforms that
would be able to get random information on twitter about
certain topics (e.g. you can monitor what people say about
brand X or brand Y), many companies are already this sort
of thing in place as it offers feedback on both the
negative and positive aspects (many times, what is being
done right is ignored). Additionally, consistent feedback
that there is a problem in a particular area will point
the anti corruption agencies in the right direction.
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<div>Many companies use this information to monitor brand
equity and customer complaints. It's just an issue of
doing the same thing for the government...
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<div>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:05 PM, <span><<a
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href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote>Lusters,<br>
I spent most of the day at KIA with other
colleagues, civil society,<br>
religious groups and KEPSA to discuss
strategies for fighting corruption.<br>
It was evident that as we get closer to
election, the level of corruption<br>
goes up (read sugar). There was a sense of
frustration that we are not<br>
making much progress. There was a dim of hope
in the sense that where we<br>
have automated, revenues are up and less
corruption. It was also clear<br>
that we (civil service) had sufficient
delegated authority to<br>
significantly change the future of our nation.
In areas where social<br>
media has been put to use, up to 60% of graft
can be detected even before<br>
it is concluded.<br>
<br>
If we scale up the use of social media, a
senior KACC official tells me<br>
that they would gladly embrace it. In this
list we have many smart<br>
people. I need suggestions how we can
integrate SMS, Twitter, Facebook<br>
and any other tool to assist in the fight
against this scourge. In my<br>
considered view, the anwser lies in
technology.<br>
<br>
However, One of the presenters said that the
western method of fighting<br>
corruption through courts could be the
problem. If you recall in 2008 at<br>
the height of the post election crisis in
Mombasa, one businessman did not<br>
have to go to court to recover his goods
opting to see a witch doctor.<br>
<br>
Any views would be highly appreciated.<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
<br>
Ndemo.<br>
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