Friends in #Albania #Kosovo #Bosnia & #NorthMacedonia- amazing news! Join Accountability Lab | accountlab.bsky.social & #HackCorruption in September- & co-create the best new anti #corruption tools in the #Balkans! More info below & pls share!

Funding🚨-- Accountability Lab is organizing an anti-corruption hackathon in #Albania (18-22 Sept). The main goal is to fight corruption by encouraging new and creative uses of technology. Open to citizens from #Albania, #Bosnia, #Kosovo and #NorthMacedonia. accountability-lab.prowly.com/337055-hackcor…

Applications are still open for #HackCorruption Balkans! We're inviting 75 change-makers from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo & North Macedonia to join us from 19-22 September, creating tech tools that combat corruption: accountlab.typeform.com/HackBalkans #data4good Resonance

📣 2 days remaining!! 📣 Apply for #HackCorruption Balkans by Aug 14! Join 75 change-makers from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia to build anti-corruption tech tools. Top ideas could win up to $10K! Fully-funded trips included! 🔗 accountlab.typeform.com/HackBalkans

Earlier this year, USAID/DRG's CTC Grand Challenge partnered with @HackCorruption to host a hackathon & bootcamp in #SoutheastAsia. Hear from participants about their experience: youtube.com/watch?v=mA5deX… Stay tuned for the next #hackathon in #Albania in September!

We convene multidisciplinary teams to build #anticorruption tools - with our next hackathon in Albania next week! In this video, winning teams from Colombia to Indonesia, explain how they channel frustration into #constructive solutions. youtube.com/watch?v=UTsWC7… 🎥: andrew james benson

Whether in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria or Bangladesh active citizenship is alive and well among young people. For #InternationalDayofDemocracy on Sunday, we're looking at how traditional modes of support can evolve to bolster those on the frontlines today. bit.ly/4d51BNt

We're in Tirana, Albania preparing for HackCorruption #Balkans this weekend! To kick things off, we're excited to introduce our participants. Here are our Albanian technologists and activists who will be hacking #corruption with us. US Dept of State INL Development Gateway: An IREX Venture Anti-Corruption & Governance Center @ CIPE MSI

Next up in our participant announcements for HackCorruption #Balkans is North Macedonia. We're so proud to be working with partners including the Open Gov Hub in #Albania, US Dept of State INL, USAID, Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) and Development Gateway: An IREX Venture by stimulating the innovative use of #tech to fight #corruption.

Meet our participants from Bosnia & Herzegovina who are beginning to arrive in Tirana, Albania, for HackCorruption #Balkans. They include technologists and activists who will be working in teams on new #tech tools to bring down corruption. Development Gateway: An IREX Venture Anti-Corruption & Governance Center @ CIPE MSI

Rounding up our #HackCorruption #Balkans participants is the cohort from #Kosovo. Hackathon problem sets include open #procurement, open budgets, illicit finance and #climate finance transparency. See more: bit.ly/3Tw5hRq Development Gateway: An IREX Venture Anti-Corruption & Governance Center @ CIPE MSI @stateinl

USAID's CTC Grand Challenge partnered on the #HackCorruption event in #SoutheastAsia, where 3 of the winning teams focused on countering transnational corruption. Read on to learn about their innovations, challenges & plans for the future! linkedin.com/pulse/discover… USAID/DRG

Green Funds Transparency is one of the successful #transnational tools emerging from #HackCorruption Balkans to prevent the misuse of funds. The team is one of 5 meeting our mentors in Tirana this weekend for our HackCorruption Bootcamp! MSI US Dept of State INL mey_ga @dgateway

How do you expose #transnational corruption networks? In many regions, tons of data is already available, primed for analysis & aggregation. One of our winning #HackCorruption Balkans teams, Balkan Corruption Insider, is doing just that... @dgateway Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) MSI

The Judiciary Intelligence Platform is being developed by a #HackCorruption Balkans team from North Macedonia, where public trust in the rule of law has fallen sharply. It combines data tracking & transparency tools to address case delays & a lack of oversight. #data4transparency

The final 2 teams rounding out our boot camp participants this weekend in Tirana, Albania, are Terra and AI Corruption Tracker. Hear more about their innovative anti-corruption solutions for the energy and procurement sectors in this video. #data4transparency

📍 HackCorruption Week, Balkans Edition Our teams are back in Tirana, Albania to refine and hone their ideas for anti-corruption tech tools. From curbing cross-border corruption to monitoring land acquisition for energy builds to prevent conflicts of interest.

📍 A timely reminderBalkans Bootcamp Weekend Our five winning teams with the most feasible ideas for anti-corruption civic tech tools gathered to sharpen their ideas and plan build, budgets and milestones for the next six months.

📍Balkans Edition Teams from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia will be building tech tools for civil society, journalists, and even ordinary citizens to track green funds, curb favouritism in public procurement, and more.