[ap-intact] INFO: Integrity Action president made Ashoka Fellow
[Facilitator's note: Thank you to Emmanuelle Kunigk, Communications Adviser, Integrity Action, for sharing this information.]
Integrity Action president Fredrik Galtung joins the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs on his designation as Ashoka Fellow on 11 November 2015.
Fredrik founded Integrity Action in 2003 with the primary objective of fixing problems through collaboration and constructive engagement. Integrity Action’s Community Integrity Building approach has helped local organisations monitor--and fix--hundreds of projects affecting around 5 million people across more than a dozen countries, helping to fix roads, dispensaries, water systems, and schools.
Data from projects monitored through this approach is stored in DevelopmentCheck, a multi-language online tool--available both as a website and as a mobile app--developed by Integrity Action and its partners to facilitate citizen feedback on the transparency, participation and effectiveness of development.
"The goal is to turn DevelopmentCheck into the Tripadvisor for development," said Fredrik during the Ashoka award ceremony. "Like Tripadvisor it functions autonomously and with full transparency. Autonomy is critical because it means we don’t have [to get] permission from Oxfam, the World Bank or a ministry of public works before communities can start working on the problems that concern them. And transparency means that the findings are there for all to see. Within five years we want to make DevelopmentCheck an unavoidable part of international development.”
Read more: http://www.integrityaction.org/prashant/fredrik-galtung-ashoka-fellow
Some useful links:
Integrity Action. http://www.integrityaction.org/
DevelopmentCheck. http://www.developmentcheck.org/
Integrity Action president Fredrik Galtung joins the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs on his designation as Ashoka Fellow on 11 November 2015.
Fredrik founded Integrity Action in 2003 with the primary objective of fixing problems through collaboration and constructive engagement. Integrity Action’s Community Integrity Building approach has helped local organisations monitor--and fix--hundreds of projects affecting around 5 million people across more than a dozen countries, helping to fix roads, dispensaries, water systems, and schools.
Data from projects monitored through this approach is stored in DevelopmentCheck, a multi-language online tool--available both as a website and as a mobile app--developed by Integrity Action and its partners to facilitate citizen feedback on the transparency, participation and effectiveness of development.
"The goal is to turn DevelopmentCheck into the Tripadvisor for development," said Fredrik during the Ashoka award ceremony. "Like Tripadvisor it functions autonomously and with full transparency. Autonomy is critical because it means we don’t have [to get] permission from Oxfam, the World Bank or a ministry of public works before communities can start working on the problems that concern them. And transparency means that the findings are there for all to see. Within five years we want to make DevelopmentCheck an unavoidable part of international development.”
Read more: http://www.integrityaction.org/prashant/fredrik-galtung-ashoka-fellow
Some useful links:
Integrity Action. http://www.integrityaction.org/
DevelopmentCheck. http://www.developmentcheck.org/