From Big Ideas to Big Change
Over the past few years we have been fostering ideas with the potential for big change. Check out the development of two of our first projects since they started in 2012.
Youth Action for Transparency Projects
This year, we received 205 entries from the global competition for social entrepreneurs, with a special focus on youth engagement. An overview of the projects being supported by this Initiative are found below.
Ana Curic - Journalist, BIRN Serbia
Natalija Jovanovic - Digital Adviser, BIRN Serbia
Corrupting the Birth Rates
In Serbia, not all citizens have been well informed about maternity leave procedures. Securing fair compensation during pregnancy and navigating through complex bureaucracy processes could be quite challenging and involving corruption risks.
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Nathalie Dijkman, Co-founder and CEO, SEMA
Connor Sattely, Co-founder and CTO of SEMA
SEMA: Client Feedback System for Public Services
It is unclear how Uganda is doing in its local public service delivery, however through collecting feedback and data, it will be possible to identify where and how corruption happens.
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Margarita Maria Mendez Sandoval, Founder, Fundación Koikos
Anyone Can Fight Corruption
Basic legal knowledge can create an enormous difference in people's lives, and can empower those who are most vulnerable to corruption risks.
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Towett Ngetich, CEO and Founder, Uthabiti Health
Uthabiti: Using Blockchain Safe Proof African Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Uthabiti is using blockchain technology to safe proof the pharmaceutical data supply chain across its distribution channels.
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Terry Jerry A'wase, Concept Director, A'DOO CAM CO.
100 Pictures of Change
People might not listen to the voice of others, but pictures speak to people and can create subconscious influence.
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Irina Lazur - Program Director of the Centre for Transparency and Civic Engagement “PARTICIP” Moldova
Tracking Construction Companies
Buying a new home is a stressful process. In Moldova, however, an additional concern has buyers worried – the threat that the building construction company will disappear, taking their life savings with them.
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Elena Calistru - President & Co-founder of Funky Citizens, a newly established Romanian NGO Romania
E-Participatory Budgeting
Romanian citizens are not informed with regards to what happens with public money, even though the information is public and they have the necessary legal rights to participate to the process.
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Victor Akinwande & Olayiwola Bello - Student at the Faculty of Communication & Information Sciences and Lecturer, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Visual Data
Many Nigerians with little or no knowledge of accounting and public finance are lost when they see a government budget (if they ever get to see one).
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Alexise Ouedraogo - Journalist working for the Union Nationale des Journalistes de Côte d’Ivoire
No to Corruption at my School
Making people aware of the problem is the first step towards having an impact corruption. Many people in Côte d’Ivoire don’t even see corruption for what it is – a serious social issue.
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Lawrence Yealue - The Accountability Lab, Liberia
Tell-it-True
Schools in Liberia suffer from a host of problems ranging from sex for grades to bribery to teacher absenteeism.
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Saed Karzoun - Journalist, CEO & Founder of Taghyeer, Palestine
Using Tech to Connect the Dots
A comprehensive training programme and social media campaign in Palestine to engage youth, government and media about transparency.
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Rajel Boilil - Journalist, Mauritania
Playing against Corruption
In Mauritania, people aren’t always aware that corruption isn’t only political, but takes place in everyday life too.
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Paolo Rivas - BA in Political Science and Government, Peru
FAENÓN: a 3D quest to understand politics
FAENÓN is an innovative approach to citizen education through board games.
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Ayman Sabae - Partner of Shamseya for Community Health Solutions, Egypt
Health in the Hands of the People
The project uses citizens’ voices to encourage accountability in the health sector through the creation of quality indicators that are patient-centered, conceived by citizens, validated by experts and that can be monitored through community audits.
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Margaret Rose - Attorney at Law and Founder of Disclosure Today!, Co-founder of the Caribbean Procurement Institute, Trinidad and Tobago
Disclosure Today! Transparency on Demand
The goal of DT! is to develop a public interest marketplace inspiring, empowering and connecting citizen activists with each other and with public interest lawyers and public authorities.
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Islam Alzaini - Journalist and TV producer, Bahrain
Can Art Change the Game in the Arab World?
My project is a video and cartoons competition to engage youth on anti-corruption.
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