{"id":22745,"date":"2015-08-25T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=22745"},"modified":"2015-08-24T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T21:50:40","slug":"get-up-for-change-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/get-up-for-change-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"This Company Improves India\u2019s Democracy By Making Transparency Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/135512404\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>On an otherwise reasonable evening in July, over 600 people packed an auditorium in Boulder, Colorado, for the culmination of the 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a>. They came to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/2015-unreasonables\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 ventures<\/a> take the stage and present their solutions to some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges. <\/p>\n<p><em>The entrepreneur in this video is <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/profile\/pbhatt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pradeep Bhatt<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinerti.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GetUpForChange<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Get involved with the Unreasonable Institute: <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/what-we-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">Programs for Ventures<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/mentorship-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Become a Mentor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/capital-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Become a Capital Partner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonableinstitute.org\/corporations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate and Institutional Engagement<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What urgent need do you address?<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"right\"><p>Every citizen has the right to know how the government is functioning without subjection to harassment or delay.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/bit.ly\/1LiefqP&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;hashtags=ui15&amp;text=&quot;Every citizen has a right to know how gov't functions w\/out harassment or delay&quot; @OnlineRTI\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corruption is a big problem in India. According to Transparency International, 62% of Indians are forced to pay bribes. Every visit to a government office has the potential to lead to demands of bribe\u2014even with basic services such as issuing drivers licenses or passports. This is a denial of the basic rights of citizens, and it\u2019s against democracy. Every citizen has the right to know how the government is functioning without subjection to harassment or delay. Get Up For Change exists to reduce corruption and improve delivery of government services in India. <\/p>\n<h2>What solution do you propose?<\/h2>\n<p>GetUpForChange empowers Indian citizens to hold their government accountable under the Right to Information Act (RTI)\u2014similar to the Freedom of Information Act in the US. Under this act, every government department has to respond to requests for information from citizens. If they don\u2019t, they get penalized. However, navigating RTI is difficult. We created an online service where we work through established legal channels to act as a liaison between citizens and government entities by leveraging RTI. It takes just 10 minutes to apply on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinerti.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.onlinerti.android\" target=\"_blank\">mobile app<\/a> in a process that\u2019s as simple as a Facebook post. Then, for $3 per request, our lawyers take up the case with the government. In the last year, we received more than 24,000 requests, from income tax returns to broken streetlights, exposing a wide array of corruption. Over the next two years, we plan to solve over 1 million requests and make India a better democracy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH THIS 6 MIN TALK on how GetUpForChange empowers Indian citizens to hold their government accountable under the Right to Information Act&#8230;all on a simple, affordable online platform. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":22747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1918,1550,1538,2009,1521,431],"tags":[2195,2194,46,2180,2177,2179,351],"class_list":["post-22745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic","category-india","category-institute","category-2015_institute","category-policy","category-talks","tag-democracy","tag-getupforchange","tag-india","tag-online","tag-pradeep-bhatt","tag-rti","tag-transparency","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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