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Tunisie : Une carte en ligne collaborative pour surveiller les élections · Gl... - 0 views

  • L'Instance  Supérieure Indépendante pour les Élections en Tunisie a mis en place une carte collaborative en ligne pour surveiller le déroulement du scrutin en Tunisie, en français et en arabe. Les citoyens tunisiens sont encouragés à signaler les irrégularités dont ils peuvent être témoins durant le scrutin qui a lieu aujourd'hui 23 octobre en Tunisie. La carte est également accessible depuis la  page d'accueil de l'Instance des élections.
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In India, an Official Puts a Webcam in Office - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • 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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