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Citizens Against Corruption (CAC)

The Public Affairs Centre has joined hands with the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) to provide small grants to CSOs in the third world to pilot test and demonstrate the relevance and impact of CSO mechanisms and approaches to improving transparency and accountability, and in fighting corruption, in collaboration with communities. This new programme is called Citizens Against Corruption, and will initially focus its support to CSOs in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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In pursuit of realizing its vision to improve the quality of public governance in India by creating vibrant, informed and proactive citizen engagements with the state and its institutions, Public Affairs Centre's mission encompasses a multi pronged approach synthesizing a range of strategies and interventions.

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Engendering ICT Policies and Praxis

A keyword found in most eulogies on e-governance is “equity”. As the magic of technology begin to unfold itself before the dazzled eyes of many policy makers, hitherto seemingly insurmountable problems like gender and social discrimination seems just a click away to oblivion. And for good reasons. Technological innovations have shown that historical and structural anomalies can be tackled in real time. The stupendous success of Grameen Phone in Bangladesh has shown a skeptical world how access to simple technologies could radically correct social imbalances and help the disadvantaged (in this case poor rural women) to chart new trajectories in their economic and social lives.