Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI, www.seatti.org) Presentation at the @america with the topic, Using Technology, Improving Communities.

1. Using Technology,
Improving Communities
Southeast Asia Technology and
Transparency Initiative (SEATTI)
Shita Laksmi, Program Manager
slaksmi@hivos.org

2. SEATTI
Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency
Initiative,
Working in Indonesia and the Philippines,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

3. purpose
building supportive ecosystem that supports all
involving stakeholders to work together to achieve
public sector’s transparency and accountability
user friendly technology, good quality of demand and
citizens engagement and government responses

4. partners and issues
currently has 16 partners working in the area of
election monitoring, social accountability, public
service delivery, open data and fiscal
transparency.

5. “Sophisticated” technology to make changes?
Hard to find in Indonesia.
Complexity of technology intervention in the
transparency (towards) accountability

6. stream of activities
• Grants
• Brokering
• Linking and learning
• Mentoring
and Collaboration!

7. Two examples
• Technology and Open Data
• Technology and Citizens Engagement

8. Open Data
Demand and
Demand and
Use
Use
Fiscal Transparency
Fiscal Transparency
Extractive Industry
Extractive Industry
Facilitating,
Brokering
Facilitating,
Brokering
Hackathon Jakarta
Hackathon Jakarta
#HackJak
#HackJak
Taking part of the
Taking part of the
Open Data
Community
Open Data
Community
Capacity Building
Capacity Building
A Series of
A Series of
Capacity Building
for Jakarta’s
government
Capacity Building
for Jakarta’s
government

9. Open Data
The First Jakarta Open Data Challenge
--200 tickets sold, 132 developers attended, 56
prototype applications submitted

10. • Video

11. #hackjak Apps Prototype

12. Citizens Engagement
• Example: Election Monitoring

13. anato
my
p a r t i c i p a
t i o n
s o c i a l
m e d i a
e n g a g e m e n t
d e m o g r a p h
i c transparen
cy
m e d i a
i n v o l v e m e n t

14. flow

15. Reflection Points
for technology and transparency
•Enabling environment is a must!
•Identifying components in the ecosystem and
collaborate.
•Never a linear route, long term process

16. Thank you
@tech4asia, @slaksmi
www.seatti.org