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Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil - Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation

English · Hardback

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This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. The book will interest students, researchers and practitioners of technologies and development in Brazil and Latam, as well as corruption and anti-corruption studies more broadly.


List of contents

1 Introduction 2 “Inching” towards accountability and digital transformation 3 The rise of integrity techies and their digital technologies 4 The material, social, symbolic, and political dimensions of ACTs in Brazil 5 Outcomes, hurdles, and prospects of anti-corruption technologies 6 Conclusions References

About the author

Fernanda Odilla holds a PhD in Social Science and Public Policy and a MA in Criminology from King’s College London. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the BIT-ACT (Bottom-Up Initiatives and Anti-Corruption Technologies) project conducted at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her research interests are control of corruption, accountability, and new technologies in the context of anti-corruption, integrity, and quality of government. Odilla is the co-founder of the King’s College London Global (Anti)corruption Studies research group and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network. Before her academic career, she worked as a multimedia producer for the Brazilian desk at the BBC World Service in London and as a reporter for daily newspapers in Brazil, where she had been dedicated to investigating and exposing corruption. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2229-986X

Summary

This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. The book will interest students, researchers and practitioners of technologies and development in Brazil and Latam, as well as corruption and anti-corruption studies more broadly.

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