1st Edition

The Digitalisation of Anti-Corruption in Brazil Scandals, Reforms, and Innovation

By Fernanda Odilla Copyright 2025
152 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil. Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a perfect case study to trace the development of bottom-up and top-down digital anti-corruption technologies and their main features. This book... Read more

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – “Inching” towards accountability and digital transformation

Chapter 3 – The rise of integrity techies and their digital technologies

Chapter 4 – The material, social, symbolic, and political dimensions of ACTs in Brazil

Chapter 5 – Outcomes, hurdles, and prospects of anti-corruption technologies

Chapter 6 – Conclusions

References

Biography

Fernanda Odilla holds a PhD in Social Science and Public Policy and a MA in Criminology from King’s College London. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the BIT-ACT (Bottom-Up Initiatives and Anti-Corruption Technologies) project conducted at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her research interests are control of corruption, accountability, and new technologies in the context of anti-corruption, integrity, and quality of government. Odilla is the co-founder of the King’s College London Global (Anti)corruption Studies research group and the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network. Before her academic career, she worked as a multimedia producer for the Brazilian desk at the BBC World Service in London and as a reporter for daily newspapers in Brazil, where she had been dedicated to investigating and exposing corruption. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2229-986X