The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation

• Main Author: Odilla, Fernanda
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies
• Subjects: Anti-Corruption; Anti-Corruption Technologies; Artificial intelligence; Brazil; Computer science; Computing and Information Technology; Corruption; Corruption & Misconduct; Corruption > Prevention > Brazil; Cultural and media studies; Development studies; Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects; Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects; Digital Media; Digital Technologies; Digitalisation; Electronic surveillance; Electronic surveillance > Brazil; Ethnic studies; Information technology: general topics; Innovation; Interdisciplinary studies; Internet: general works; Media & Internet; Media studies; Political activism / Political engagement; Political campaigning and advertising; Political Process; Political Science; Political structure and processes; Politics and government; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Technology Studies; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Technology: general issues; The Arts; Innovation; Digital Technologies; Anti-Corruption Technologies; Digital Media; Digitalisation; Brazil; Anti-Corruption
• ISBN: 1032353848; 9781032353807; 1032353805; 9781032353845; 1040133355; 1040133320; 9781040133323; 9781003326618; 9781040133354; 1003326617
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003326618

This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book highlights the connections between anti-corruption reforms and the rapid implementation of innovative solutions, primarily developed by tech-savvy public officials and citizens committed to anti-corruption efforts. The book draws on interviews with experts, activists and civil servants, as well as open-source materials and social media data to identify key actors, their practices, challenges and limitations of anti-corruption technologies. The result is a thorough analysis of the process of digitalisation of anti-corruption in Brazil, with a theoretical framework which can also be applied to other countries. The book introduces the concept of “integrity techies” to encompass social and political actors who develop and facilitate anti-corruption technologies, and discusses different outcomes and issues associated with digital innovation in anti-corruption. This book will be a key resource for students, researchers and practitioners interested in technologies and development in Brazil and Latin America, as well as corruption and anti-corruption studies more broadly.