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Using AI to fight corruption in the Brazilian g...

Using AI to fight corruption in the Brazilian government

talk I gave at Evidence2Action: Smart Government, on May 10th, 2017, San Francisco, CA

Thiago Marzagão

May 10, 2017
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  1. Using AI to fight corruption in the Brazilian government Thiago

    Marzagão data scientist OPS’ deputy head
  2. the Fachin list (4/11) - 17 political parties - 24

    out of 27 states - all former presidents - 3 governors - 8 ministers - 39 representatives - 24 senators - ...dozens of other bigshots
  3. what the app looks at: - how did he/she got

    in? (political connections vs entrance exams) - owns company? - punished before? - position? - ... hundreds of other variables
  4. what the app looks at: - campaign donations? - how

    many employees? - has been around for how long? - how many bids? - scope of activities?
  5. cooperation w/ academia - how common are frauds in public

    procurement? - in 2014 alone: - 30,302 bidders w/ same phone numbers - 2,882 bidders w/ same addresses - 532,986 identical bids - 154,911 bids from same IP addresses - what’s the damage caused by frauds in public procurement? - (working on it) Claudio Ferraz, PUC-RJ Dimitri Szerman, PUC-RJ Frederico Finan, UC-Berkeley