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Call for Proposals: Web-Based Transparency & Accountability Tools in Central & Eastern Europe

Date:
October 21, 2009

The Open Society Institute Information Program, in partnership with mySociety, plans to launch a joint project in Central and Eastern Europe. The project aims to help individuals and organizations use the Internet to increase transparency and accountability in their countries.

The project will identify local groups and individuals who understand deeply both digital technologies and the workings of their government and society. mySociety will then mentor selected organizations through the process of building sites and services that increase transparency and accountability. In the UK, mySociety runs some of the world's most widely imitated transparency websites, such as TheyWorkForYou.com and FixMyStreet.com, but ideally many of the selected projects will be based on new ideas which could only have been created by those with a detailed knowledge of local circumstances.

The project is expected to foster a new ecology of experts within the target countries who understand how to build and maintain such systems, how to market them, and how to ensure that politicians and news media respond to them.

Further Information

For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit cee.mysociety.org.

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