Bribecaster: Documenting bribes through community participation
Corruption is endemic in many emerging economies - many transactions of private citizens with government institutions require payment of bribes. While well known as a general phenomenon, specific data about the "bribe economy" are hard to come by. But such data are needed for rational resp...
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| author | Mittal, Manas Wu, Wei Rubin, Steve Madden, Samuel R. Hartmann, Bjorn |
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| description | Corruption is endemic in many emerging economies - many transactions of private citizens with government institutions require payment of bribes. While well known as a general phenomenon, specific data about the "bribe economy" are hard to come by. But such data are needed for rational responses to corruption at the societal and individual level - to expose it; to know which offices to avoid; or to know how much to pay if other recourse is not available. In response to a corruption survey of 102 Indian participants we are developing Bribecaster, a mobile application that enables citizen collection and curation of corruption data. A key research question is how to create a system that has accurate data while simultaneously protecting users from repercussions of having their identities revealed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/729492022-09-29T20:16:52Z Bribecaster: Documenting bribes through community participation Mittal, Manas Wu, Wei Rubin, Steve Madden, Samuel R. Hartmann, Bjorn Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Madden, Samuel R. Madden, Samuel R. Corruption is endemic in many emerging economies - many transactions of private citizens with government institutions require payment of bribes. While well known as a general phenomenon, specific data about the "bribe economy" are hard to come by. But such data are needed for rational responses to corruption at the societal and individual level - to expose it; to know which offices to avoid; or to know how much to pay if other recourse is not available. In response to a corruption survey of 102 Indian participants we are developing Bribecaster, a mobile application that enables citizen collection and curation of corruption data. A key research question is how to create a system that has accurate data while simultaneously protecting users from repercussions of having their identities revealed. 2012-09-14T13:46:05Z 2012-09-14T13:46:05Z 2012-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4503-1051-2 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72949 Manas Mittal, Wei Wu, Steve Rubin, Sam Madden, and Bjorn Hartmann. 2012. Bribecaster: documenting bribes through community participation. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion (CSCW '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 171-174. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-3265 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141570 Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion (CSCW '12) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT web domain |
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