Comments on: Why Social Media can Fight Corruption?

By: Puneet

Puneet — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:01:29 +0000

Hi, good to see your blog & your interest in the nation, politics & issues like corruption. I had been to Freedom Park, Bangalore to support the Anna Hazare team recently. I have shared my experience on my blog http://puneet3210.blogspot.com/2011/08/anna-hazare-freedom-park-bangalore.html . Do have a look. The same is shared on IndiBlogger also at http://www.indiblogger.in/indipost.php?post=72809 Puneet

By: uvach

uvach — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:41:41 +0000

@KPalaka Agree with you entirely. Thanks for your suggestion

By: K Palaka

K Palaka — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:01:43 +0000

Social media has become extremely important in the Indian context given the politician-media-industry nexus. Essentially, most of the Indian media seems to engage in publishing “paid news”. And, even when there are no financial disincentives, they may not have the intellectual capacity to see and argue for public good. In this backdrop, the social media are really a boon.

Btw, please increase the font size on this blog. It’s really tiny.

And, good luck !!

By: uvach

uvach — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:30:59 +0000

@ipab – the success of your efforts are spectacular. We ourselves have not had too many people coming forward in our own initiative “Bribe Rate Chart” – http://www.nobribe.org/bribe-rate-chart that we had started much earlier.

By: IPaB

IPaB — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:23:33 +0000

Social Media is indeed the best platform to tackle an all pervading social evil like corruption. I have seen from personal experience that anonymity does work wonders.
I Paid a Bribe (www.ipaidabribe.com) is such a social media initiative to uncover the market price of corruption. Since our launch on independence day we have had 600+ bribe reports from users.

@anirvan: Visit our website (www.ipaidabribe.com) to interact with other like-minded people in tackling corruption.

By: uvach

uvach — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:14:25 +0000

@Anirvan – Thx for your honest suggestion. I have wringed some rapid changes in a short while, some which have led to this clutter. Have faced a dilemma in finalising the engagegment model on the site from Buddypress to Tal.ki to the present Google Friend Connect. To start with, will revert to the earlier menu with fewer items and then address the issue of site engagement.

By: Anirvan

Anirvan — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:12:52 +0000

I agree with your theory, but your website needs to be simpler and clearer. The home page should not include too much data. It should only include enough to tell people that this is a website against corruption using the tool of social networking. A very good example of a website like that would be http://www.apple.com where the home page is simple and clear. This would make your organization a marketable entity. The website should be like any social network site. Step 1- Visit the website, step 2- log in, step 3 – engage
I’m only saying this to you because i’m very passionate about changing the country and feel a site is needed for this where everyone like me can come together. If you’d like to take my suggestion, please turn this home project site into a professional organization. Thanks

By: uvach

uvach — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:58:32 +0000

@Jonathan – Agree with your concerns. This is part of a larger debate on the ‘ownership’ of Social Media. Cloud computing is definitely the way to go for future. However, our problems are immediate and can’t wait for an ideal solution to be emerge. Moreover my solution is to use as many mediums as possible including Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo etc. and of course Blogs are central to the theme.

By: Jonathan Eyler-Werve

Jonathan Eyler-Werve — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:09:41 +0000

There’s also the challenges of ownership: much social media, so far, has been a product of big centralized systems (Facebook, YouTube, etc). Blogs are better, Twitter somewhere in between. This centralization of the Internet puts power into the hands of those who would censor and control the conversation, even if the system owners refuse to cooperate. See Pakistan’s recent blocking of Facebook, and think about how much harder that would be with “blogs” as a whole. That’s the pro-citizen power of decentralization. As corruption fighters, we should look for an support decentralized platforms.

Jonathan at Global Integrity

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