Bribecaster: documenting bribes through community participation

Authors:
Manas Mittal;Wei Wu;Steve Rubin;Sam Madden;Björn Hartmann
Affiliations:
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Corruption is endemic in many emerging economies - many transactions of private citizens with government institutions require payment of bribes. While well known as a general phenomenon, specific data about the "bribe economy" are hard to come by. But such data are needed for rational responses to corruption at the societal and individual level - to expose it; to know which offices to avoid; or to know how much to pay if other recourse is not available. In response to a corruption survey of 102 Indian participants we are developing Bribecaster, a mobile application that enables citizen collection and curation of corruption data. A key research question is how to create a system that has accurate data while simultaneously protecting users from repercussions of having their identities revealed.