Digital Technologies and Media for Grassroots Anti-Corruption

The BIT-ACT research team is excited to announce the closing event of our five-year research project. This milestone event will be hosted online, via Zoom, on December 9th, from 4 PM to 5 PM CET. This is a great opportunity to share with our community the key findings of our extensive research on the role of grassroots anti-corruption technologies and the main challenges faced by civil society organizations in nine countries and at the transnational level in fighting corruption. 

Alice Mattoni, Principal Investigator of BIT-ACT, will present the project’s key findings and engage with audience questions.  

The presentation of BIT-ACT’s results is part of a broader event we are organizing for the International Anti-Corruption Day, titled “Advances in Anti-Corruption: Current Trends and Future Prospects”. For more details on the event, click on RESPOND website. 

Before the BIT-ACT section (3PM-4PM), guest speakers will present different experiences in anti-corruption research, with guest speakers from the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute and from three ongoing international research projects - BRIDGEGAP, FALCON and KLEPTOTRACE - will be sharing their research experiences. And after the BIT-ACT session, from 5PM to 6PM, we invite you to join a round table on the impact of corruption on democracy, featuring partners from RESPOND - Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies. RESPOND is the new research project funded by the HE RIA programme, involving 17 academic and non-academic partners and coordinated by the University of Bologna in Italy. Alice Mattoni is the Scientific Coordinator for RESPOND. 

As we approach the closing event, we encourage you to explore our recent publication: the Edited Volume “Digital Media and Grassroots Anti-Corruption. Contexts, Platforms and Data of Anti-Corruption Technologies Worldwide. Additional publications from the BIT-ACT project can be found on the Publications section in our website.  

The event is open and free of charge. To attend it, please register here.