Transparency in Africa

Thanks to Tiago, I came across the Kenyan budget tracking tool -  a simple but impressive tool for tracking how and where funds are being spent in Kenya. Reflecting the uneveness of internet access, the tool includes a mobile module so that citizens can send a text to point out errors in the information or flag up projects that seem in some way dubious. The tool comes from SODNET, a Kenyan NGO committed to social justice and democracy which seems to operate very much as a distributed network. Very interesting!