crowdsourcing + auditing: a good idea to fight corruption

Since a long time ago the corruption in the government has been a curse in the public finance, this situation can be seen vividly in poor countries (it does not mean that in the developed countries does not happen, but this is another discussion) wherein the corruption makes that the money assigned for government projects (like roads, building of schools, etc. ) benefits some specific company or themselves.

My idea, based in readings about social networks for my thesis, is to create a crowdsourcing (basically a group of people who participate in voluntary bases) that check the financial progress and the real advance of the government contracts. I think that achieve people's participation is quite easy, making interesting to study the motifs behind the participation, like political interest of those who did not got the contract, and all these power and political games, in other words, how to get something good from something not so good (the aims and intentions of the participants), based in the public validation (another topic for further research)

to make this crowdsourcing works, one thing is required, that the actual (and future) government (at any level) allows opening to the people the financial and contractor's report. Maybe now that in my country (my loved Colombia) are in political campaign, the population, the electors, can make that exigence, and maybe one of those "new politicians" who wants to fight the corruption take my idea.

the open auditing crowdsourcing is a good place to practice for students, not only of accounting but also of other disciplines that are interesting in the data and its analysis, as well as for those people with enough time and knowledge like retired that can make a good labour for their countries and for others as well, given the fact of the international standards and the open nature of the groups.

I ll be working on the idea to improve it, and invite you, dear reader, to do it as well, to we can produce new ideas to make the world a better place