This document discusses various tools and websites created by Code for South Africa to promote transparency and accountability using open data and civic technology. It summarizes several tools created for citizens to access information on medicine costs, living wages, municipal budgets and spending, bylaws, and government proceedings. It also discusses the role of sunlight and open data in driving social change and empowering citizens and civil society. Overall, the document promotes using technology and open data to increase government accountability and enable informed civic participation.

1. Data tools and democracy:
Using tech for good
October 2016
Adi Eyal
Photo Credit: Tom Stoddart
@soapsudtycoon
@code4sa
http://bit.ly/code4sa-mpa

2. We use technology and data to help
people make informed decisions that
drive social change.
Photo Credit: Darryn van der Walt

3. What should your medicines cost?
http://mpr.code4sa.org

4. http://mpr.code4sa.org
What should your medicines cost?

5. http://mpr.code4sa.org

6. http://mpr.code4sa.org
What should your medicines cost?

9. “… It very quickly became a must-use website for me. I
work in a mixed-income neighbourhood and being able to
figure out what works for my patients' budgets is
extremely helpful – there is no point in prescribing
medicine that the patient cannot afford to buy” - Family
Doctor

10. How much should you pay your domestic worker?
http://www.living-wage.co.za

11. Where do you live? How much do you pay?
http://www.living-wage.co.za

12. Where do you live? How much do you pay?
http://www.living-wage.co.za

13. Common excuses people give
for not paying a living wage
http://code4sa.org/2015/04/08/pay-a-living-wage.html

14. “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants….”
- Louis B. Brandeis

15. http://capetownbudgetproject.org.za/

16. http://capetownbudgetproject.org.za/

17. http://capetownbudgetproject.org.za/
Cape Town: Budget by ward

18. http://muni.compliancetracker.org.za/

19. http://muni.compliancetracker.org.za/

20. Municipal Money website - not yet launched

21. http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/12/15/Drive-safely---bankrupt-a-broke-municipality
There's something fishy going on
Is Ubuntu municipality really relying on fines to keep their economy afloat?
Driving on the N1
Johannesburg - Cape Town

22. “[S]unlight is not in fact the best disinfectant; actual disinfectant
is. Sunlight just makes it easier for people to look at the pus.”
- Aaron Swartz

23. http://muni.compliancetracker.org.za/

24. http://ismaps.org.za/

25. http://ismaps.org.za/

26. http://ismaps.org.za/

27. http://ismaps.org.za/

28. http://ismaps.org.za/ http://ismaps.org.za/

29. http://www.wazimap.co.za

31. Photo credit: Social Justice Coalition

32. Chr
Photo credit: Social Justice Coalition

34. http://vote4thebudget.org.za

35. http://capetownbudgetproject.org.za/

36. http://pa.org.zahttp://pa.org.za

37. What about the data illiterate?

38. http://cbm.code4sa.org/
Citizen-based monitoring using mobile technology

40. Photo credit: Kim Harrisberg

41. http://www.living-wage.co.za
http://openbylaws.org.za

42. Good Day Sir
I'm xxxxxxxxxxxx from xxxxxxxxxx. I would like to find out if you
could give me advice on the following:
We live next to a (koop & loop tavern) named xxxxxxxx which also
has a tavern at the back
My Mother never give permission or signed any thing to give
consent for these taverns as a neighbour, we have tried so many
ways to close them even contacted Liquor Board they did assist us
but a Mr. xxxxxx said they promise they wil get back to us we have
been waiting ever since that

43. We explained everything and told him about the noise, the fact that
they are stealing part from our yard, they made holes so that the
urine and dirty water aswell can come through our yard then it
smells horrible and look terrible.
We have 4 bedrooms but can only sleep in the main bedroom
because if the customers and family of this taverns go on from
Monday to Monday.

47. http://opengazettes.org.za

48. http://opengazettes.org.za

49. http://opengazettes.org.za

50. http://pmg.org.za

51. http://pmg.org.za

52. Accountability Cookbook
Youth in my community need safe spaces. What
should I do?
1. Contact my ward councillor?
2. Make a submission to the municipal budget?
3. Attend sub-council meetings?
- What are the processes that exist for me to improve
service delivery?
- What are my rights?
- What information is available?
- Are there other organisations working in this space?

53. Accountability Cookbook
What are my rights?

54. Accountability Cookbook
What information is available?

55. Accountability Cookbook
What actions can I take?

56. Accountability Cookbook
Who can I learn from?

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58. “The most important political office is that of the
private citizen”
- Louis B. Brandeis

59. Contact us
Email: info@code4sa.org
Twitter: @code4sa
Web: http://www.code4sa.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/code4sa/