Digital Award for Transparency: the winners
On 8 December 2017, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Transparency International, CFI and Liberté Living-Lab came together to reward the best digital tools for improving governance in developing countries.
The prize-giving ceremony for the very first Digital Award for Transparency took place in Liberté Living Lab's headquarters in Paris – a collaborative workspace for tech, civic and social innovation – and was attended by Mounir Mahjoubi, the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs.
A panel of nine experts from the civic tech sector and the anti-corruption movement awarded prizes to three projects in three different categories: Open Data, Citizen Engagement, and Digital Anti-Corruption Tools.
Open Data
CABRANE – Charfeddine Yakoubi (Tunisie)
Cabrane is an interactive platform for monitoring public projects in Tunisia. It not only allows users to access information relating to those projects, but also enables them to post news about them or demand accountability from the public authorities, since it is open to all.
The platform uses innovative yet accessible technologies, and forms part of the worldwide movement towards e-governance and the transparency of public contracts. Charfeddine Yakoubi is the founder of the Tunisian Association of Public Auditors (
Association tunisienne des contrôleurs publics, ATCP).
A staunch fighter against corruption, he is currently campaigning for greater access to public data, arguing that corruption cannot prosper in a transparent environment.
Citizen Engagement
PRESIMÈTRE – Luther Yameogo (Burkina Faso)
Présimètre is a political and socio-economic accountability system that is based on a technological platform that encourages citizens to engage in public policies. This tool aims to share information between those groups in civil society that are working on democratic governance, in order to promote and strengthen collaborative efforts and allow any deficiencies in public policy management to be swiftly tackled.
Présimètre is the brainchild of Luther Yameogo, who has much proven experience in international development and humanitarian efforts across practically the whole of Africa, and is backed by the NGO Diakonia.
Digital Anti-Corruption Tools
TSYCOOLKOLY – Andrianina Rakotoarivelo (Madagascar)
Tsycoolkoly allows Madagascar's citizens to report cases of corruption or praise morally upstanding officers. The information is transformed into simple statistics, thereby enabling citizens to keep themselves informed via a corruption barometer relating to specific business sectors, and to form assessments of the institutions tasked with combating corruption. Tsycoolkoly (which literally means 'corruption is not cool' in Malagasy) is backed by the NGO Tolotsoa.
