Volume 16, Number 2

The Process and Fate of Hackathons Against Corruption in Brazil

  Authors

Antônio Augusto Braighi, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil

  Abstract

This paper aims to assist in understanding the dimensions of the anti-corruption activism that uses new digital media in Brazil. Here, however, the goal is to fill a gap in the understanding about the tangible results that programming marathons, with an anti-corruption purpose, have been achieving in recent years in that country, in order to understand whether the projects arising from the events have been effective or not and what are the justifications for the success or failure of proposals after the so-called hackathons. It was hypothesized that, from a pragmatic point of view, regarding the implementation and maintenance (continuity) of anti-corruption projects, hackathons have not achieved significant results. This study confirms this hypothesis and this article discusses the results obtained.

  Keywords

Hackathons, Corruption, Brazil, Activism, Digital Media