BIT-ACT researchers presented a study on how civil society organisations use digital media to fight corruption in India

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The BIT-ACT researchers Anwesha Chakraborty and Preeti Raghunath presented their most recent research at the conference Digital Transactions in Asia IV. The event was organised by the Nanyang Technological University Singapore and the Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi.

In the paper entitled “Mobilising Citizen Participation Against Corruption in India: A Study of Three ICT Based Civil Society Initiatives from the Grassroots”, the authors explored digital transactions - or more specifically, interactions with the digital - and their intertwining with the social, by presenting a study of civil society organisations that use digital media technologies in addressing corruption in India in various ways. 

The study draws on qualitative research conducted over the period of a year, to help understand how collective action and people’s efforts often render open what are otherwise closed technology architectures, to normative aspirations and ideals of governance, in this case, to do with calls for anti-corruption efforts in India.