Financial Disclosure and Transparency in India and Spain

In part because of the youth of its members, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in India has made significant use of tech to improve outreach and transparency in management of party finances. A main feature of AAP’s efforts toward greater fiscal transparency is their aim to publicly declare all expenditures and rupees collected by donation on the party’s website — including information on the donation’s origin, month and amount — updated in real time. AAP’s #iFundHonestParty challenge allows supporters to make a donation via a mobile app, sends the donor a receipt via SMS or email and posts the contribution online. In Spain in 2014, the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) signed an agreement with Transparency