Wireframe of a tool to help aggregate, make sense of and make South African corruption reports, easy to find.

1. Meerkat A webtool to help citizen sleuths make sense of South African corruption

2. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Meerkatters Scorebord About Blog SUBMIT Report a corruption story - from press reputable sources Past your Report URL below Top 5 actors Name Name Name Name Name Top 5 incidents Name Name Name Name Name Top 5 Organisations Name Name Name Name Name Users should be able to simply paste an URL to submit a corruption report Weekly hunt can be used by administrators to suggest themes Meerkaters can concentrate on. Featured post is simply a post featured form the Meerkat blog This dashboard simply shows whose names have popped up most in corruption reports The names link to the their respective pages (See slide 7) Meerkat features reports relating to corruption to the tune of R25,000,000 in total Scavenger Hunt This week we need help collecting information about the Information Scandal that happened 1978-79, involving BJ Vorster , Connie Mulder , Eschel Rhoodie and others. Join the hunt. From the Meerkat blog Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Read more This tally is there to demonstrate the size of the corruption problem

3. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Report a corruption story Thank you! URL: mg.co.za/loremipsum Now tag all the names, incidents and organisation named in this report. Each is worth x points Actors: Jackie Selebi, Glen Agliotti Incident: OR Tambo smuggling Institutions: SAPS, Airports company 1pt 2 pts 1 pt 2 pts Report Score: 6 pts Title: O R Tambo used as smuggling hub Save Your report will appear when approved Publication: The Star; Journalist: S Brummer; Money value: R450,000 Thank you Should be able to id the <Title> of the report And also the body text (slightly harder) should be sucked in. [With Delicious this can be done by highlighting text when submitting - perhaps an option?] Users score points for reports, and get extra points for more detailed reports The idea is to encourage reporting and tagging of reports Points are scored for Actors, Incidents, Institutions, but not money values, journos, publications We should investigate use of semantic analysis tools like Open Calais to suggest Tags, Tags should also be suggested to avoid duplicate spelling etc. Meerkatters Scorebord About Blog If a duplicate URL is found the system will notify submitter

4. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Report - O R Tambo used as smuggling hub Report by Kameraad Mhambi URL: mg.co.za/loremipsum Names, incidents and organisation named in this report. Each is worth x points Actors: Jackie Selebi , Glen Agliotti Incident: OR Tambo smuggling Institutions: SAPS , Airports company 1pt 2 pts 1 pt 2 pts Report Score: 6 pts Money value: R450,000 Report page We only show the intro of the report, but Meerkat will store the whole report in its database (so we don’t get in trouble with the press, but act as secondary storage) This is a page featuring an accepted report. We link to the original URL We link to Meerkatter's page Each Tag links to its Tag aggregation home - See slide 7 Meerkatters Scorebord About Blog

5. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Meerkatters Find all our citizen sleuths Top 5 Meerkatters all time this week today Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Directory A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) Name - (Score) 1 2 3 We try and encourage healthy competition to make reports, and give top reporters recognition Names link to their profile pages (slide 7) All Meerkatters can be found via Alphabetical directory Meerkatters Scorebord About Blog Meerkatters (Member directory)

6. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Meerkatter - Kameraad Mhambi (Total Score) Reports by Kameraad Mhambi title - (Score) title - (Score) title - (Score) title - (Score) title - (Score) Bio My mind is digital but my heart in the southern bit of Africa http://twitter.com/wildebees http://Mhambi.com Profile page The Profile page is to give each Meerkatter a home. It also shows their level of involvement Members can insert links to their Twitter profiles or blogs Profile pic Links to relevant report page Short bio Meerkatters Scorebord About Blog Only members see this - it allows users to mail each other (similar to Flcikr mail system)

7. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Actor - Thabo Mbeki All about Thabo Mbeki on Meerkat Reports mentioning Thabo Mbeki Title - A ( Zuma ) I ( Arms deal ) I ( Armscor ) Title - A ( De Lange , Nel ) Incidents ( Feinstein bollocking , Arms deal ) I ( Parlaiment ) Thabo Mbeki Wiki Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum This page aggregates all mentions for a tag in one place and provides room for users to write the narrative in the Wiki below. These pages in particular be SEO’d to the max. The Tag, will sit in the <Title Tag> and in in the <H1 tag>. We want them to appear high in SERPs Meerkatters Scorebord About Blog Tag page (Actors, Incidents, Institutions)

8. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Meerkat registration Please register via Twitter or Facebook or enter your details Or Register below Username Bio Your links Register We make it as easy as possible to register via Twitter, Facebook or manually Members can insert links to their Twitter profiles or blogs Profile pic If a users wants to replace their current profile pic they can browse to a new one here. Describe yourself in a few words Add an URL Browse to upload a picture Register via Twitter Register via Facebook Your username Add an URL

9. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Corruption reports submitted URL: mg.co.za/loremipsum Title: O R Tambo used as smuggling hub Approve Your report will appear when approved Admin - Reports If indeed a corruption report - Admin users will look to see if all actors, incidents and institutions were tagged. Meerkatters Reports Decline If a duplicate URL is found the system will notify admin Submitted Approved Declined

10. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum lorem ipsum Admin: Report evaluate URL: mg.co.za/loremipsum Make sure all the names, incidents and organisation named in this report are there. Actors: Jackie Selebi, Glen Aglioti Incident: OR Tambo smuggling Institutions: SAPS, Airports company 1pt 2 pts 1 pt 2 pts Report Score: 6 pts Title: O R Tambo used as smuggling hub Approve Your report will appear when approved Publication: The Star; Journalist: S Brummer; Money value: R450,000 Admin - Report evaluate If indeed a corruption report - Admin users will look to see if all actors, incidents and institutions were tagged. Admin can add, delete or change tags Meerkatters Reports Decline If Admin declines they have to give reasons, see next slide

11. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Corruption report declined - reason URL: mg.co.za/loremipsum Title: O R Tambo used as smuggling hub Approve Your report will appear when approved Admin - Reports reason Its good practise to keep record and notify submitters why reports are declined. Meerkatters Reports Decline Please select a reason for declining Another page carrying exact story has been submitted Message to submitter

12. Meerkat A website that makes sense of SA corruption Meerkatters Admin - Meerkats Meerkatters Reports Admin directory of users Meerkatters can be suspended, their participation put on hold without deleting an account. Message all Directory A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z Name - (Score) - Message - Suspend - Delete Name - (Score) - Message - Suspend - Delete Name - (Score) - Message - Suspend - Delete Name - (Score) - Message - Suspend - Delete 1 2 3 Admin can send a message to all users