The BIT-ACT team presented their work in Trento, Italy
Published on 13 September 2024
Our latest work was presented by three BIT-ACT researchers at the Italian Political Science Conference (SISP) in Trento, Italy in September.
Alessandra Lo Piccolo, BIT-ACT postdoctoral researcher, presented her working paper "Anti-corruption and state repression: constraints to societal accountability efforts", which presents a typology of the different types of repression civil society faces when engaging in anti-corruption activities.
Co-authored by BIT-ACT Principal Investigator Alice Mattoni and our colleague Fernanda Odilla, the paper "Follow the money! Financial strategies, resources and costs of bottom-up anti-corruption technologies" was also presented by Odilla. The study examines how the initiatives studied by our project survive financially.
And Carolina Gerli, doctoral candidate and BIT-ACT associate, presented part of her PhD research. In the paper "AI in Public Organisations to Tackle Public Procurement Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Italy", she shared the first findings on how Italian government agencies are developing and using anti-corruption technologies.
The three papers were presented in the panel "Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Digital Age", which Odilla co-chaired with Francesco Merenda of the University of Perugia.
The conference was held at the University of Trieste from 12 to 14 September.