Klarity and award-winning investigative journalist Anas launch citizen engagement platform
Klarity has today unveiled a collaboration with award-winning Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Tiger Eye Foundation. Together they launch JeSuisAnas.org, an online platform that allows users to record and upload videos of everyday corruption, with Klarity providing the technology and the full spectrum of product development. Tiger Eye will serve as Klarity’s partner, a collaborating organization with a proven track record for fighting corruption in Ghana and across Africa.
Tiger Eye Foundation and its founder Anas Aremeyaw Anas have since Klarity’s inception worked closely together to mobilize activists and investigate cases.
The platform JeSuisAnas.org launches with over 100 uploaded videos from Anas’ latest work on exposing corruption in the Ghanaian football league. Going forward it will connect citizens, activists, and journalists in Ghana in the fight against corruption.
“We are very excited to be working with Klarity. After many years of working as an investigative journalist and with the Tiger Eye Foundation, I have witnessed the difficulty of exposing corruption first hand. This platform will allow us to expose not only grand corruption but also petty corruption in a safer way and help mobilize civil society to increase accountability on public institutions”, says Anas.
In practice, Klarity will provide the technological infrastructure and digital tools to upload videos where citizens of Ghana experience corruption first-hand.
Tiger Eye will serve as editors and mobilize and encourage activists to share more content on the platform. From Ghana, Klarity hopes to spread the platform all around the world and evolve it into tackling not only everyday corruption but all forms of human rights’ abuse.
“We want to encourage the spread of democracy around the world, based on strong, transparent and well-functioning institutions that citizens can trust. Anas and Tiger Eye bring a deep and thorough understanding of activism and journalism to the table, while we provide the tools to engage citizens en masse and multiply their impact. We will continue to build partnerships with prominent organizations as we expand Klarity into new countries”, says Klarity CEO Eliza Kücükaslan.
