Technology, Accountability and Transaprency Camp

This is a camp to bring together technology enthusiasts, coders, hackers and policy-thinkers together in a collaborative environment to develop innovative solutions to accountability and transparency challenges in India. 

Some of the topics being talked about thus far

1. Public finance - How can citizens track their tax-money? How can citizens decide where their money goes?
   1. Participatory budgeting and how technology is improving participatory budgeting
   2. PETS - Public Expenditure tracking surveys
      1. How can more citizens contribute to such surveys - crowd-sourcing surveys
   3. PAISA - India's first citizen-led survey to track money - Ms Yamini Aiyar
   4. Expenditure Information Network -
   5. Where does our tax money go? - Mr Raghunandan 
   6. Sustainable Public Finance Management - Egovernance Foundation
   7. An innovative experiment in tracking mortage - Dinesh Shenoy, Palantir
2. Open Data and why it is important for transparency
   1. Where can you find government data - Anirvan and Avani Kapur
   2. Scraping government data using Needle Base - Aaditya Dhar
   3. Why is visualization important? - GramEner
   4. Open Data - Chakshu Roy, PRS
   5. Gautam John - Akshara's work at the Karnataka Learning Partnership and the need for open educational data.
   6. Data-mashups - Rishabh Verma
3. Technology innovations for improving the Right to Information
   1. A wishlist - Mr Sailesh Gandhi, Information Commissioner
   2. Shouldn't the replies to RTI be in the public domain? - Aaditya Dar, Ritwik Agrawal, Dhruv Suri
   3. Filing an RTI: Problems and Prospects
   4. RTI Question and Answer Portal
   5. How do you file an RTI though an SMS?
4. Egovernance initiatives that are leading to greater accountability and transparency
   1. Mahima Kaul - Digital Empowerment Foundation
5. Making the links between politics and businesses transparent
   1. Rohit Chandra
6. Electoral accountability
   1. ‘Improving and Strengthening Democracy in India’ - Lessons from Election Watch Process - Sridhar Pabbisetty - Member, National Election Watch.
      
   2. Crowd-sourcing actionable data - Vivek Joshi
   3. Using online tools to engage and be engaged by the public.
   4. How should we look at technology when dealing with grassroots situations?
   5. How can programmers help in making governance more transparent?
   6. Perspectives from the Government
   7. Making conversation: citizens and their governmen
   8. Making visual sense of Data and Policy
   9. Policy to Practice: From the lab and to the people
   10. How do you uncover the links between politicians and businessmen?
   11. How can legislators and parliamentarians and MPs be tracked by citizens?
   12. Research Tools to work with large amounts of data
   13. Other interesting ideas that have come up
       1. Panini Keypad - Mr Abhijit Bhattacharjee
       2. How Ashok Leyland dealt with its problems of too many layers between the customer on the ground and the top management - Its implications for the government