Open Knowledge Conference

Taking the pulse of global Initiatives using technology to promote transparency and accountability

I want to share the key findings from having reviewed more than 100 projects and having interviewed dozens of practitioners in Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, and Sub-Saharan Africa who use new technologies as a means to increase transparency and accountability. The short talk – demo will help to “take the pulse” of the Technology for Transparency & Accountability movement and suggests both exciting possibilities for scaling impact as well as important caveats and challenges.

by Renata Avil on July 1st at 18:00 in Track I

Renata Avila is the country lead of Creative Commons Guatemala. She has a law degree and a Master in Intellectual Property Law by Turin University. She is interested in the improvement of societies through access to knowledge, sharing of difference and acceptance of plural visions. She has worked with the Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation, Harvard University and the Public Voice. She co-founded the Fritz-Machlup Research Center for the Study of Internet in Guatemala City and contributes as its affiliate researcher. She is a contributing writer at Global Voices and the OpenNet Initiative. Renata’s interests include free culture, open education, privacy, freedom and human rights in the digital environment. She actively promotes the involvement of girls and women in technology. Renata served as a researcher during the first phase of the Technology for Transparency Network.

Twitter: @avilarenata.