[ap-intact] COMMENTARY: The use of social media to combat corruption - The “I Paid a Bribe” web site in India

“[Two years after the launch of India’s ‘I Paid a Bribe’ website], web site traffic had fallen dramatically and site sponsors had begun questioning its utility.  One told authors of a Harvard Business School case study, “Not too many people are now coming on to our site, and whatever limited activity that occurs there is linked with fresh media reports. I think there is a feeling of ennui . . . at the moment.”  Transparency International’s Dieter Zinnbauer reports traffic has declined at similar web sites . . . and that some have even folded.”

Read the post by Rick Messick, in the Global Anticorruption Blog. http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/05/13/the-use-of-social-media-to-combat-corruption-the-i-paid-a-bribe-web-site-in-india/

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