_Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente_ (Smart Citizen Foundation) is a non-profit social organization based in Chile that promotes transparency and encourages active citizen participation through the web and other information technologies. Its goal is to reduce information asymmetries in Latin America that currently produce a gap in citizens’ relations with politics, the market and other social encounters. The organization conceives web technologies as a key tool for gathering, organizing, illustrating and sharing information through the social web, with the aim of promoting informed citizen actions and accountability.

Our web platform _www.ciudadanointeligente.cl_ hosts various apps that are used as citizen tools to promote transparency and citizen participation:

_www.votainteligente.cl_: the online congress accountability website that acts as a watchdog to monitor congress information. It tracks every bill being debated, providing updated information about the contents and the parliamentarians who support them (or not), the debate, both at plenary and committee levels, and the potential interests behind the legislative work. It also has a Profiles section, where web users can track each member of congress individually. _Votainteligente_ is also a blogging space for citizens who aim to publish information, opinions or columns related to issues of political accountability and transparency.

_www.accesointeligente.cl_ is a web application that allows citizens to request public information from any government-dependent agency, all from a single window that acts as a one stop shop. It connects automatically with each public agency’s online form, it publishes answers as searchable data-bases, and it keeps statistical information of all requests.

_www.donar.cl_ is a website that helps citizens find the right organization to make a donation to. It is a catalog of NGOs based on institutional information about organizations and on the transparency of budget-management information and performance.

_Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente_ was born in 2009, before Chile’s presidential election. The platform started out as a unique place to find all the information about each candidate: CVs, stances, views on subjects, etc. Users could compare the candidates’ positions side by side, through the sites’ candidate comparison app, which served as a resource in the decision-making process.

Links: http://www.ciudadanointeligente.cl/

Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente (CL) has been founded by Felipe Heusser, a Lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It has a solid team of people, all young professionals from different fields: lawyers, political scientists, journalists, sociologists and researchers, together with a large group of interns who help us with our investigations and legislative monitoring.