Year established: 2011
Website: GlobaLeaks - Free and Open-Source Whistleblowing Software
Region: International/Italy
Organisation Bio: GlobaLeaks is a software development/anti-corruption project which developed a free and open-source whistleblowing software that enables the creation of a secure whistleblowing framework to fit the needs of any organisation, whether a public body, a company or a non-profit. Once deployed, the software enables secure and anonymous communication between whistleblowers and the host. The social enterprise behind GlobaLeaks is
Whistleblowing Solutions Impresa Sociale S.r.l. (WBS) that carries out research and development to support whistleblowers and the fight against corruption. It was founded in 2016 to guarantee the economic sustainability of the GlobaLeaks project, through taking care of the growing number of requests for assistance, maintenance and custom deployment. WBS hosts development activities and coordinates community efforts.
Work on whistleblowing: GlobaLeaks has been increasingly used since 2014 in the field of exposing and preventing corruption through the use of whistleblowing technology. The software has been adopted in projects promoted both by civil society with important actors, such as different chapters of Transparency International (in
Italy,
Ireland,
France and
Portugal) and by over 10,000 public bodies in Italy and the European Union (EU), including central and local entities, which have adopted the software in compliance with anti-corruption measures (e.g. law 190/2012 in Italy).
WhistleblowingIT, a project that GlobaLeaks runs in partnership with Transparency International Italy, is supporting more than 5000 public agencies with free whistleblowing platforms. You can read more about this project in the manual
How to set-up an initiative to provide online whistleblowing platforms to public and private entities. This information enables other organisations to replicate the project worldwide.
There is a large number of third-party adoptions of GlobaLeaks which vary in the usage of the software to support secure reporting in different contexts.
Many public institutions, anticorruption authorities and private companies around the world use GlobaLeaks as a secure whistleblowing solution.
The software is also used as a collaborative whistleblowing tool by groups or consortiums of different media agencies. A few examples of these multi-stakeholder platforms are:
PubLeaks in the Netherlands,
Source sûre in France and
IndonesiaLeaks in Indonesia.
The continental project
Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) uses GlobaLeaks to support African whistleblowers who decide to report wrongdoing.
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