“La Voz Pública” foundation is an independent, non-partisan and non-profitable organization whose aim is to improve transparency of massive broadcast information in Argentine society. Our goal is to defend the citizens’ right to be informed because we consider that it plays a key role in democratic systems. Moreover, we believe that enhancing participation in public debates regarding community affairs is essential for our democracy.
Internet seems to have the highest potential to, at the lowest cost, multiply the players who access to content production, share and distribution. In this context, we have designed Chequeado.com to achieve our objective. Chequeado.com is a website where declarations of politicians and public figures are questioned through investigation so as to monitor what is published, criticized or hidden. We disseminate fact-based information through the site and we provide a reliable source for the population to get informed.

The need that we see in Argentina relates to the proliferation of information sources with low degrees of reliability. Deep and analytical journalism is each day more difficult to find in our country because of the alliances between political power, economical interests and the media. The lack of an independent press and

Our solution offers a non-partisan newspaper in which we examine statements by politicians, buisinessmen, journalists and public people who speak up in Argentina.

Internet seems to have the highest potential to multiply the players who have access to content production, share and distribution. The emergence of new technologies, such as the Internet, at the lowest cost Our solution makes a difference because we use the potential of digital communications to create and distribute fact-based information in order to increase civic participation.