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Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente
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Established December 2009
Location Santiago, Chile
Address 895 Holanda
Providencia, Santiago, Chile
Website ciudadanointeligente.org

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente (Smart Citizen Foundation)is a non-profit organization based in Santiago, Chile.The organization creates web technologies as a key tool for gathering, organizing, illustrating and sharing information through the web, working to promote informed citizen actions and government accountability. Under the umbrella of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, there are several ongoing projects. The web platform, Vota Inteligente (Vote Smartly), hosts different applications and tools that give access to information for the general public, ultimately serving to promote government transparency and citizen participation in Chile. The organization is non-partisan and does not take sides on political issues, apart from those dealing with furthering government transparency, accountability, and promoting citizen participation.

In addition to the main project, Vota Inteligente [1], the following projects are ongoing within Ciudadano Inteligente: Acceso Inteligente (Smart Access) [2] is an online freedom of information management system for Chilean citizens, Promesas 21 de Mayo (Government Promises of May 21) [3] is a graphic analysis and follow-up of presidential electoral promises, Señal Alo (Hi Sign) [4] an online visualization of telecommunication antennas with a strategic design. Donar (Donate) [5] is a tool modeled after Global Giving, [6] that promotes donations to civil society organizations in Chile, making the donation process transparent and easily accessible for both Chileans and the NGOs on the site. The site, ¿Hay Acuerdo? (Is there Agreement?) [7] breaks down the current ongoing debate between Chilean students and the Piñera administration. Globo Ciudadano (Citizen’s Balloon)[8] is a project that live streams protests in Chile on its website, using balloon mapping. (See explanation below).

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente was registered as a non-governmental organization in Chile on December 22, 2009. Vota Inteligente was publicly launched on October 22 of that same year in preparation for the Chilean Presidential elections. The first drafts of the organization’s mission focused on the promotion of transparency and social accountability. Web technology later also became an essential element to the organization, mainly due to the influence of other organizations that had already successfully been using the internet to pursue transparency and accountability. The final draft of the project was completed during the first months of 2009.


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