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Marc Botte

New York Times, in Collaboration with WNYC Radio, Launches SchoolBook, an Interactive E... - 1 views

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shared by Marc Botte on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Web site of news, data and conversation about schools in New York City on September 7
  • Access to SchoolBook will be free and exempt from The Times’s digital subscriptions
francispisani

In India, an Official Puts a Webcam in Office - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by francispisani on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Little Brother is watching you. Enlarge This Image Sanjit Das for The New York Times Oommen Chandy, the chief minister of Kerala. That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goings-on in his chamber are viewable to the public, 24/7. In an India beset by kickback scandals at the highest reaches of government, and where petty bribes a
  • Little Brother is watching you.
  • That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official here has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment. Goings-on in his chamber are viewable to the public, 24/7. In an India beset by kickback scandals at the highest reaches of government, and where petty bribes at police stations and motor vehicle departments are often considered a matter of course, Oommen Chandy is making an online stand.
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  • as with everything captured by the webcam there was no audio
  • “This type of tokenism is also quite useful,”
  • Mr. Abraham said webcams might be a far more powerful tool if installed in police stations, drivers’ licenses offices, welfare agencies and other places where Indians interact with officials who sometimes demand bribes to do routine work. A few agencies around the country have started such surveillance, he said, but most have not.
  • transparency is tedious
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