Forwarded to the whole list on behalf of a non-member. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gps <gadgil...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:36 AM Subject: Project Proposal - wiki to monitor the government spending - GovSpendWatch Wiki To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello, One of the biggest problems of democratic givernance is that Allocated funds for various causes, initiatives and projects disappear due to corruption, mismanagement or just lie unutilised due to poor or non-existant public oversight. Another aspect is that the public Audit watchdogs in may countries is unable to function independently, and their reports disappear when inconvenient. Many a times the issues come to limelight when irreparable damage has been done, due to media expose or due to increasingly used Right-to-Information provisions, however media moves on to next issue, and there is no permanant vigil over the public expenditure. The same issue is rampant in Asia, Africa and even in developed countries. We need a Global countrywise repository for monitoring, tracking, identifying possible issues in public expenditure. The domain is important enough for Wikimedia, and the support / backing crucial enough for the platform to succeed. Pl. consider this request to start a wiki to monitor the government spending, possibly named as GovSpendWatch-Wiki. Project Proposal has been made @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GovSpendWatchWiki Pl. forward the proposal to foundation-l mail-list for review. regards, prasad gadgil - प्रसाद गाडगीळ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l