The BIT-ACT project has arrived at its end: a five-year journey exploring grassroots anti-corruption technologies

The BIT-ACT research team is excited to announce the closing event of our five-year project. Join us in the online talk "Digital Technologies and Media for Grassroots Anti-Corruption, via Zoom on 9 December 2024, from 4pm to 5pm (CET), where we will share insights from our research in nine countries and at the transnational level. 

Alice Mattoni, the Principal Investigator of BIT-ACT, will present the project’s main results and engage with audience questions. This milestone event is a great opportunity to share the key findings of our extensive research on the role of grassroots anti-corruption technologies and the main challenges faced by the civil society organisations who developed and used them. 

As we approach the closing event, we encourage you to explore BIT-ACT's 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, including article, monographs and book chapters, can be found here. 

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

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.