ICT for Development: Combating Corruption and Increasing Government Accountability

Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Speaker
Boris Weber
Team Leader, ICT4Gov and Voices Against Corruption, World Bank Institute
Presider
Isobel Coleman
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations

CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman speaks with Boris Weber, director of ICT4Gov at the World Bank Institute, on how technology is being leveraged to promote good governance and increased transparency in fragile states and emerging markets.

This was a meeting of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Roundtable series.

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