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María Baron from @DireLegislativo with some general findings on conflicts of interest from Colombian officials.

Interesting results of a poll (participants were free to enter their own words)

Heard at #TICTeC during the panel '“Help, my civic tech project became critical national infrastructure”- reflecting on the last 15 years of UK civic tech':

Paraphrasing: "Don't underestimate how much impact critique and feedback from NGO's and citizens can have on government."

Some great tools and organisations from the #TICTeC session "Citizen engagement and parliamentary monitoring":

- https://www.dcinbox.com/ search all newsletters from US members of congress

- https://linktr.ee/wevis WeVis from Thailand has made several websites with millions of visits in the past years

- https://queridodiario.ok.org.br/ search through official journals of hundreds of Brazilian cities

DCinbox

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

Day 2 of #TICTeC 2024 has started 🎉!

Maria Vitória Ramos from @fiquemsabendo talking about their amazing projects. E.g., transparent pension spending.

From the same "Civic tech for transparency" #TICTeC session:

Nnenna Eze from the Public and Private Development Center open up Nigerian procurement data and publish it using the Open Contracting Data Standard on https://budeshi.ng/

Budeshi

Open Contracting for Nigeria

@marcidale from POPVOX shares this timeline of the US civic/gov tech space from the past 18 years at #TICTeC

Great to see that vTaiwan is going to be used a bit more than in recent years! Shu Yang Lin talked about the past, present en future of deep deliberation at #TICTeC. Shout-out to #g0v!