Using Technology, Improving Communities - SEATTI

Using Technology, Improving Communities

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI)

Shita Laksmi, Program Managerslaksmi@hivos.org

SEATTI

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative,

Working in Indonesia and the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

purpose building supportive ecosystem that supports all involving stakeholders to work together to achieve public sector’s transparency and accountability

user friendly technology, good quality of demand and citizens engagement and government responses

partners and issues

currently has 16 partners working in the area of election monitoring, social accountability, public service delivery, open data and fiscal transparency.

“Sophisticated” technology to make changes? Hard to find in Indonesia.

Complexity of technology intervention in the transparency (towards) accountability

stream of activities• Grants• Brokering • Linking and learning• Mentoring

and Collaboration!

Two examples

• Technology and Open Data • Technology and Citizens Engagement

Open Data

Demand and Use

Fiscal Transparency

Extractive Industry

Demand and Use

Fiscal Transparency

Extractive Industry

Facilitating, Brokering

Hackathon Jakarta#HackJak

Taking part of the Open Data Community

Facilitating, Brokering

Hackathon Jakarta#HackJak

Taking part of the Open Data Community

Capacity Building

A Series of Capacity Building

for Jakarta’s government

Capacity Building

A Series of Capacity Building

for Jakarta’s government

Open Data

The First Jakarta Open Data Challenge --200 tickets sold, 132 developers attended, 56 prototype applications submitted

• Video

#hackjak Apps Prototype

Citizens Engagement

• Example: Election Monitoring

anatomy

participation

social media

engagement

demographic

transparency

media involvement

flow

Reflection Points for technology and transparency

•Enabling environment is a must!•Identifying components in the ecosystem and collaborate. •Never a linear route, long term process

Thank you@tech4asia, @slaksmi www.seatti.org