This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media
and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption
in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant
empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study
to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital
anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book
highlights the connections between anti-corruption reforms and the
rapid implementation of innovative solutions, primarily developed by
tech-savvy public officials and citizens committed to anti-corruption
efforts. The book draws on interviews with experts, activists and
civil servants, as well as open-source materials and social media data
to identify key actors, their practices, challenges and limitations of
anti-corruption technologies. The result is a thorough analysis of the
process of digitalisation of anti-corruption in Brazil, with a
theoretical framework which can also be applied to other countries.
The book introduces the concept of “integrity techies” to
encompass social and political actors who develop and facilitate
anti-corruption technologies, and discusses different outcomes and
issues associated with digital innovation in anti-corruption. This
book will be a key resource for students, researchers and
practitioners interested in technologies and development in Brazil and
Latin America, as well as corruption and anti-corruption studies more
broadly.
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Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation
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ISBN
9781040133354
Publisert
2024
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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