The Colour of Corruption
The Color of Corruption (port. Vigie Aqui) is a platform created by the Reclame Aqui Institute in collaboration with PUC-PR students, who developed a browser plug-in that identifies corruption cases and ongoing legal proceedings against politicians and candidates. Once installed, the plug-in works by highlighting the name of politicians involved in judicial proceedings for cases of corruption, money laundering and other public crimes, and allows for users to view a file with up-to-date information about the candidate's role in said process and the current status of investigations. The data is extracted from open databases made public by judiciary agencies at the state and federal levels. In addition, as part of the same project, an App was developed that offers the same information through facial recognition technology: if the user captures an image (for example, of a pamphlet) of a politician, the app identifies the subject and shows The available information. The databases are updated regularly by volunteer students of the PUC-PR. In 2019, the database contained information on 1 president, 5 ex-presidents, 1 vice-president, 81 senators, 513 deputies and 27 governors with legal proceedings open against them.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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