About the event: Hacking iCorruption
Institutions make modern life possible by organizing human interactions on a massive scale. We generally benefit from the incentives, norms, and information that institutions provide. However, if corrupted, institutions can cause grave harm.
“Institutional corruption is manifest when there is a systemic and strategic influence which is legal, or even currently ethical, that undermines the institution’s effectiveness by diverting it from its purpose or weakening its ability to achieve its purpose, including, to the extent relevant to its purpose, weakening either the public’s trust in that institution or the institution’s inherent trustworthiness.”
– from “Institutional Corruption, Defined” by Lawrence Lessig.
Hundreds of researchers, journalists, activists, and scholars from a variety of fields have come together at the Lab at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, under the direction of Lawrence Lessig, to investigate, map, and find solutions for institutional corruption around the world.
After five years of research and reporting, we need your help in translating this work into usable tools for the public. The Lab has data, documents, and knowledge to share in a range of arenas from pharma to academia to Wall Street to K Street. Come take part!
Not a developer? Not to worry. You have a place here. Open to all ages, kinds, and beings.
Select participants who create usable tools will be invited to present at the Ending Institutional Corruption Conference at Harvard Law School on May 2.
