Occasionally
we include in the occasional blog article that has no direct
relationship with technology, but in this case maybe it has it
indirectly.
Specifically it is a study by Transparency International that gives a
score to each country in the world according to their level of
corruption.
The points to be taken into account to assess each country are cases of
bribery, speculation, nepotism and corruption and dirty dealings in the
public sector.
The end result may not surprise many, but I think the results in the country where I live are really optimistic.
Yet you get the big picture and you realize something important: the
first world countries, the richest and most prosperous have lower levels
of corruption, just the opposite in the third world countries.
The main problem is that the only ones who can remove corruption in a
country are corrupt governing them, so it's a bottomless pit right? If your country does not appear in the graphics still look complete ranking in the world rankings by country here.
The Twitter account of the Government has surpassed
the 200,000 fans, the second followed the open Spanish institutions, and
is the third most influential in relation to other Western governments,
only behind the White House and Downing Street.
The profile of the Government on Twitter (@ desdelamoncloa), according
to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency, has not only
increased their number of followers, but has also become influential in
social networks.
It highlights what a comparative study between 2.0 tools of European
governments, which shows that @ desdelamoncloa is situated, by number of
followers and influence in the network, one of the top-ranked by
profiles up as @ Elysee (official Twitter of the Government of France)
or @ KremlinRussia (Russian government's official Twitter).
Furthermore, according to the Klout measurement tool, the account of La
Moncloa, open since July 2009, has scored 72 points in influence over
one hundred.
This same tool indicates that the Government is one of fewer requests for information about users poses Twitter.
According to the company, governmental 849 requests were received, of
which 679 came from the U.S. Executive, 98 from Japan and 11 in Canada
and United Kingdom respectively. Countries like Mexico, Spain and Peru are less than 10 requests.
Meanwhile, the 2012 report of United Nations development presence
'online' government institutions around the world, says that in the
Internet environment, the Spanish Government was leading the group of
countries in southern Europe .
The 200,000 Twitter followers of Government, the more than 60,000 video
views on YouTube, the 18,000 daily visits to the website of La Moncloa
(www.lamoncloa.gob.es) and more than 14 million page views are shown, as
highlighted by the statement, the Executive's commitment to "promote
communication, understanding and transparency" of public decisions on
the Internet.
