Interests inspector / Felipe Álvarez
Speaker: Luis Felipe Álvarez Burgos: Civic software developer based in Santiago, Chile working in Ciudadano Inteligente. Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente creates and develops technological tools which empower citizens in transparency, accountability and collective participation, both in Chile and Latin America. Abstract: Ciudadano Inteligente (FCI) is an NGO based in Chile that aims to bridge the information gaps between the latin american people, also promotes laws and regulations to promote transparency and accountability in the government. In this sense FCI conducted a research called Interests Inspector (2011), that was intended to transparent the relation between the declarations of assets of Congress and the legislative work. The intention of it was to inhibit congressmen to benefit themselves and not the public good, specially considering that the chilean system doesn't provide an oversight entity for this kind of conflict.
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- 2. Who is Ciudadano Inteligente?
- 3. Context ● The relationship between Money and politics in Latin America ● Citizens believe that politicians are corrupt ● Technology + Advocacy generates change
- 4. The study ● Researched congressmen assets and categorized them. ● Bills in which congressmen had participated.
- 5. The match Based on the previous information we saw if there were "Possible conflicts of interests"
- 7. Impact ● Some politicians updated their declaration of assets ● We almost got sued by one of the parties
- 8. Impact It triggered several campaigns that aimed to regulate the relation between money and politics.
- 9. The End?
- 10. ● Create a simpler but extensible application that works in different contexts. ● Engage with other Latin American NGO's and investigative journalists. Future of Interests Inspector
- 11. How it is going to work?
- 12. I've got a question for you Does it make sense in your context?
- 13. Questions? Yes now it is the end
Editor's Notes
- We are an NGO whose final goal is to bridge the gap between powerless and powerful. Which in Latin America is a big thing
- Latin America is a region that has a lot of problems and one of the more subtle but violent at the same time is the relationship between money and politics.
- We went through our congressmen's assets and found that not all of them were declared, we also went through
- I wouldn't be asking it if the answer wasn't no =)