Using Technology, Improving Communities
Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI)
Shita Laksmi, Program [email protected]
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