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A Folksonomy-like Tool to Fight Corruption

Hackathon problem statement
Posted 5 October 2012 by Transparency International Secretariat
Key Corruption Terms
To develope a platform that translates short texts into their native language.
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Build a platform whereby members of the public can assist in translating short texts from a source document to their native language, with the ability for ‘folksonomy-like’ voting to decide what the best translations of certain terms are. Through this crowd-sourcing, we could translate key materials into many more languages and help provide globally accepted definitions of key corruption terms.

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