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This is exactly the kind of corruption which goes on in my country (Hungary). I hereby want to ask every HNer if he wants to team up with me and create a nonprofit startup which lets people document corruption in their country/city etc, things which are too small for wikileaks, or publicity like this.

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I don't know about Hungary but in 3rd world countries (I am Brazilian) the worst is not that these things happen, it is that voters are too stupid to care.

One example: a couple years ago it was discovered that the president of the Brazilian Senate and Congress had a child with a mistress and a lobbyist office was paying the child support. It was a scandal that made big news. He resigned from the presidency but remained in the Senate. Later on he was reelected as senator and chosen president of senate again, last month. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renan_Calheiros

Well, that's pretty much Berlusconi's entire political career: 20 years of scandals and still going strong. At the same time, you can expect at least one scandal per French president, but we seem to change them with more regularity.

You should check out the Indian House of Commons, called the Lok Sabha. Rape and bribery are a prereq.

No, they are not. The incidence of criminal cases is large but not in the majority, or a prerogative:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-13/india...

Being in the minority doesn't mean they can be treated as outliers. Those ministers have multiple cases against them.

Given the nature of public attitude and their trust in the justice system in a developing country such as India, you can rest assured that the number of reported cases are below the number of actual occurrences.

Jacob Zuma's (the South African President) rape trail would seem relevant here.

Check out http://bribespot.com/ -- they are doing pretty much the same thing.

I will look into it, thanks for the heads up.

also http://www.ipaidabribe.com/

No email in your profile.

I have been thinking about this for some time now and I feel the biggest factor in using this is localization. Nature of corruption is different in most countries, the startup will need to address that.

I'm down...email me? ping@namank.com.

Add me to your list as well - I'd like to do something in this space. me@alexmuir.com

Updated my profile. You can reach me at janosdobronszki at citromail dot hu

But we must check out the mentioned bribespot thingie first.

I think there are a lot of places where this is happening and the more we can out it, the better it will be. I don't think we should just let it pass.

As a brazilian noted, voters don't know they should pay attention to it, politicians are ok with status quo, but we should press on.

I am looking into this site mentioned, BribeSpot.com

This nonprofit exists already: http://www.transparency-usa.org/

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