A 34-year-old Moroccan has come up with a bribery mapping app expected to curb the vice in the North African country.
Tarik Nesh-Nash who has worked for Microsoft in Seattle, Washington, recently launched the Mamdawrinch set to help map incidents of bribery in Morocco.
He built the app with funding from Transparency Maroc, the Moroccan chapter of Transparency International.
According to Transparency International, corruption in Morocco is at CPI 3.5 just like India’s and a majority of Morrocans were silent on the vice but Nesh-Nash wanted people to participate to help end it vice hence the app.
“I wanted to open up the debate on the topic,” says Nesh-Nash.
At the moment, the reports on Mamdawrinch document events ranging from bribes given to national ID card officers in order to receive a card to corruption in a psychiatric emergency ward.The site uses Facebook, Twitter and YouTube integration, and mapping through Ushahidi.
Ipaidabribe.com sites have be launched across the continent with Kenya, Uganda,Tunisia, Nigeria,Zimbabwe have theirs. The site’s sprouted from the 2010 launched India’s I Paid a Bribe which at the moment has reports.
Morocco’s ipaidabribe just like the Kenyan one, publishes reports anonymously as the cases could easily lead to victimization. The site has gathered 73 reports at the moment.
Before this, he built Marsad.ma in 2011 an SMS election monitoring tool and later on he built, Juriste.ma, an online law encyclopedia and Charik.org — for citizen participation in national issues.
Mamdawrinch has only been online since January 2012 so it’s as yet unclear. But it fits Nesh-Nash’s trajectory as an online activist, building tools to try, with varying success, to influence the growth and direction of his home country’s reformation.
