In search of innovative proposals to fight corruption, promote transparency and simplify information on public spending, the Court of Auditors of the State of São Paulo (TCESP) will promote, on December 9, the Cultural Contest 'Ideias.TCESP 2017 '.
The theme of the competition – aimed at digital entrepreneurs, startups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), cyber activists and public servants – will be 'Transparency and quality of public spending'. Participants must create a tool that allows for the improvement of external and social control processes, routines and activities.
For this edition, five challenges were launched: providing citizens with information that allows them to monitor the use of public resources; work and display transparency data to facilitate the measurement of spending quality; increase the population's interest in social control; to enhance the detection of illegalities in the contracting of public goods and services based on transparency data and create tools and methodologies for the inspection of resources.
Regulations
Individuals aged 18 or over, startups with less than five years of existence in the National Registry of Legal Entities (CNPJ) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can participate in the contest. Teams can have up to five members. Those selected will be notified and invited to the event.
Prizes will be distributed to the three finalist teams. The first place will receive R$ 20,000.00, the second, R$ 15,000.00, and the third, R$ 10,000.00.
Applications are open until the 27th of November. On December 14, the award ceremony will be held.
The event, an initiative of the Presidency of TCESP, has the support of the Department of Information Technology (DTI) and the Escola Paulista de Contas Públicas (EPCP), both linked to the Court. The regulation and registration form are available on the 'Ideias.TCESP 2017' website, at the link https://www4.tce.sp.gov.br/ideias2017.
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