Transparency International makes me laugh. With a sufficient amount of corruption, all SMSs to their number can be intercepted. These folks seem not to understand the extent of corruption in third world countries, Zimbabwe included. Not so long ago I read kuti vana Pablo kuMexico vakavaka mobile network yavo. Ane shungu anoita but how do you know that those messages will into be intercepted? There ware people who are corrupt to the tune of billions of US dollars who can afford such infrastructure to intercept communications? And why should people pay to report corruption? And if folks report corruption what are they (TI) going to do? What if someone reports police corruption, who will they report to? Plus whose phone number is it anyway? Maybe the owner of that phone number will delete messages about corruption which he has been bribed to delete. Transparency international must do better. If they were serious they would do something like wikilaeks, and hosted on servers outside Zimbabwe.
And just how much information do they expect to get from 160 characters?
According to TI-Z the information received will be processed via a web application accessed securely by TI-Z designated staff.
How do we know Transparency International staff are not corrupt? Are they employing angels?
My advice to them is to build a website that posts information unfiltered as it comes in.