[Mind's Eye] Re: Bringing citizens closer to the policymaking process and citizen monitoring of government.

Some indication of how hard Vam's project is can be found at
http://www.economics.jku.at/members/Schneider/files/publications/OrgCrime_Feld4.pdf
- though I think the amount of organised criminal money is much higher
than the near trillion dollars shown in this research. Finance has
become a shell game with 50 shells played by a quintet of squid.
Balance sheets are now highly transparent but irrelevant to what goes
on in large companies and banks. We have to make business transparent
and any accounting that prevents this criminal. I suspect this would
collapse financial services and retailing.

On Sep 6, 11:02 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would I have been a cop for them Gabby!  Sadly, the murkier bit I did
> only made it more obvious I was on the wrong side.  Corruption is
> winning.
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> On Sep 6, 8:23 am, gabbydott <gabbyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >http://transparency.org/
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> > Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading
> > the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide
> > coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and
> > children around the world.
> > TI's mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.
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> > Transparency International challenges the inevitability of corruption, and
> > offers hope to its victims. Since its founding in 1993, TI has played a lead
> > role in improving the lives of millions around the world by building
> > momentum for the anti-corruption movement. TI raises awareness and
> > diminishes apathy and tolerance of corruption, and devises and implements
> > practical actions to address it.
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> > Transparency International is a global network including more than 90
> > locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation. These
> > bodies fight corruption in the national arena in a number of ways. They
> > bring together relevant players from government, civil society, business and
> > the media to promote transparency in elections, in public administration, in
> > procurement and in business. TI's global network of chapters and contacts
> > also use advocacy campaigns to lobby governments to implement
> > anti-corruption reforms.
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> > Politically non-partisan, TI does not undertake investigations of alleged
> > corruption or expose individual cases, but at times will work in coalition
> > with organisations that do.
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> > TI has the skills, tools, experience, expertise and broad participation to
> > fight corruption on the ground, as well as through global and regional
> > initiatives.
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> > Now in its second decade, Transparency International is maturing,
> > intensifying and diversifying its fight against corruption.
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> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Vam <atewari2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Technology for Transparency Network - Final Report : Global mapping of
> > > technology for transparency and accountability.
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> > >http://bit.ly/qHPWXQ
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> > > - Bringing projects and interventions to scale.
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> > > - Bringing citizens closer to the policymaking process through new and
> > > improved channels of participation as well as citizen monitoring of
> > > government.
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> > > - Identifying policy priorities and service delivery challenges
> > > through 'data mashing' and other visualisation and data manipulation
> > > techniques of both government and private datasets.
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> > > - Improving the efficiency of civil society organisations working in
> > > the transparency and accountability space through adoption of best
> > > practice technology platforms.