Celebrating all who have helped shape Promise Tracker over the years
Fruit of the labor of so many, Promise Tracker is the result of 6 intense years of dialogue, relationship building, experimentation, some successes and always much learning. Throughout the various stages of its development, from the creation of the prototype to the implementation of collaborative data collection campaigns on...
USP and EMEF Rosangela R. Vieira school launch campagin on active mobility and sidewalks in São Paulo
In 2021, a team at the University of São Paulo (USP) started the development of a campaign on active mobility in the context of the project “The (un)sustainability of our everyday: services, urban commons and digital tools aimed at mobility in the city“, in response to a call for...
Tribute to Eliana Mara
In 2021, one of our great partners and mentors, Professor Eliana Mara, left us early. Eliana was a high school math teacher in the public school system in Santarém, Pará for 23 years. Creator and coordinator of Project SOL for 17 years — a program developed by youth in...
Promise Tracker wins first place for Bank of Brazil Foundation’s Social Technology Prize
At the final ceremony for the Bank of Brazil Foundation’s 2021 Social Technology Awards, held on December 2nd, Promise Tracker won first place for the Digital Innovation category. In addition to this category, the 2021 edition of the award featured categories for Sustainable Cities, Education for the Future, and...
Office of the Comptroller General in Pará wins the CGU Excellence Award for project “Égua da merenda, João!”
The Office of the Comptroller General in Pará won the CGU Excellence Award in 2018 in the Innovation category for the collaborative citizen monitoring project, “Égua da merenda, João!“. Carried out in partnership with the Federal University of Pará and the Social Observatory of Belém, the project engaged public...
A new home for Promise Tracker in Brazil
After 4 years of collaborative development under the umbrella of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, Promise Tracker is officially venturing out to establish a new project home. As use of the platform has taken off in Brazil since its launch in 2015, members of...
New article from our partners: Engagement and persistence for group coproduction in public schools: why and when young individuals participate
This week, Promise Tracker Governance Committee members Lidiane Dias of the Federal University of Pará‘s Laboratory for Innovation and Oversight in the Public Sector, Marcelo Morais de Paulo of the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) and Ivan Silveira da Costa of the Social Observatory of Belém together with...
Office of the Comptroller General publishes results from one year of monitoring school lunches
Over the years, the Promise Tracker team has had the pleasure of accompanying the groundbreaking Monitoring School Lunches project, created by a partnership between the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU), the Accounting Sciences Department at the Federal University of Pará and the Social Observatory of Belém. The project has...
Students take Brasília
On December 8th, I had the honor of joining nearly 800 students, teachers and public figures in Brasília for an incredible showcase of youth leadership in citizen oversight and community stewardship. The event was the final prize ceremony for the semester-log student citizenship initiative run by the Comptroller General’s...
Student Audit project launches in Belo Horizonte
Last week Belo Horizonte’s City Hall launched a new Student Audit project designed by the Comptroller General’s Office of the municipality in collaboration with Secretary of Education and the Comptroller General’s Office of the Federal District. Inspired by the School Audit launched in Brasília last month, the project invites middle school students...