The way citizens and organisations have been using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the past decade has created dramatic new possibilities for public transparency, accountability and participation.
This report identifies efforts to use ICT from the use of mobile technology to open data portals – for fairer and more inclusive, transparent and accountable public resource management. Drawing on available literature and interviews with practitioners and users in fragile and conflict-affected countries, the research identifies approaches to ICT that can lead to real impact in fragile and conflict-affected countries. This report provides a mapping of ICT tools to inform open contracting in fragile and conflict-affected countries, a topic that has only recently emerged in analytical literature. The research highlights the need for further case studies, documented experiences and analysis to exemplify the use of ICT enhanced accountability for open contracting in practice.
