Description
ÜVEGFALU(Glassvillage) is an innovative project that aims to achieve complete financial transparency within Hungarian municipalities. As a pilot project, the program would first apply its guidelines on a small town called Pázmánd, before it could become widespread across the country. By organizing so-called transparency trainings, our project would prepare 75 different NGOs which then be able to pressure local municipalities to have more financial transparency. In short,our project involves the municipality, local NGOs and the citizens of Pázmánd. Additionally, the program should also embrace NGOs from the whole country that wish to promote freedom of information (FOI), and which are interested in our trainings and conferences. By conducting a creative media campaign through several different platforms. One should lastly note that the successful implementation of our project would include a research on local municipalities and transparency,as well as a sophisticated rating system.
Summary of project results
In recent years, corruption became widespread in Hungary, and local municipalities are one of the most compromised sectors. Their goal was thus to make them as transparent as we can. The aim of the Üvegfalu (Glassvillage) project was to create a website for Pazmand – a town in Fejer County – which can prove their point that data of public interest is easy to share and complete municipal transparency can be achieved on the Internet. Their model should be introduced to an increasing number of local governments in order to convince them to join our initiative. Thye were able to complete all our planned activities. Their partner NGO from the town helped organize local events, and also made useful remarks about the webportal. Besides more than a hundred articles in Hungarian newspapers, the project was discussed in radio interviews as well. In fact, a number of municipalities have already expressed their interest in the model.
Summary of bilateral results