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Ushahidi platformOpen-source platform to crowdsource and map citizen reports during crises and elections.Pilas con el VotoCitizen reporting (crowdsourcing) platform operated by the MOE that allows reporting electoral irregularities via pilasconelvoto.com and WhatsApp; reports are escalated to the authorities. In operation since 2011, it is activated in every electoral cycle. In the 2026 presidential elections the MOE used it with more than 2,600 observers (2,532 in the first round, 2,638 in the runoff).QueremosDatos.coPublic platform for freedom of information (FOIA) requests built on mySociety's free software Alaveteli and operated since 2016-2017 by Datasketch with mySociety and journalists from Bogotá. Any citizen can request information from the State; the team processes and publishes the response. Active in 2026, with ~2,876 requests to more than 6,400 public bodies, under the 2014 Transparency Law.I Change My City and My City My Budget (Janaagraha)Janaagraha runs I Change My City, a civic web and mobile platform launched in 2012 that connects citizens with municipal agencies to report and resolve infrastructure complaints, and its flagship participatory budgeting campaign My City My Budget. In Bengaluru, with the BBMP, the campaign collected 16,261 proposals from the 243 wards in 31 days (2021-22 cycle), several of them incorporated into the municipal budget.MyGov: national citizen participation platformMyGov is the citizen participation platform of the Government of India, launched in July 2014 and operated by the National Informatics Centre. It allows commenting on policy consultations, submitting tasks, taking part in surveys and co-creating with ministries. It reports more than 30 million registered users (as of March 2023; later figures cite 47 million+) and runs 22 state instances.Mzalendo Trust (Eye on Kenyan Parliament)Non-partisan parliamentary monitoring organization (PMO) that uses civic technology to make the Parliament of Kenya more accessible and transparent. It tracks the performance of MPs, committees and parties, publishes the Hansard, and runs citizen participation platforms for legislation. Its Dokeza platform (launched with Parliament in 2017) allows commenting on and annotating bills; other tools include BungeMeter, Bonga na Mzalendo, Promise Tracker and county assembly resources. It operates within Kenya's Open Government Partnership space.
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Using ICTs to create a culture of transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societiesGovernment Information Quarterly (Elsevier), vol. 27(3), pp. 264-271 · 2010 · paperdocumentVolunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief: A Case Study of the Haitian EarthquakeWorld Medical & Health Policy (Wiley), vol. 2(2), pp. 7-33 · 2010 · case_studydocument