El sitio www.mipanamatransparente.com fue relanzado este miércoles 13 de octubre en la ciudad de Panamá. La denuncias ciudadanas comenzaron a llegar de inmediato.

Diez editores y reporteros comenzaron el taller de periodismo de Mi Panamá Transparente. La primera sesión trató el tema de la ética periodística y el debate fue intenso y productivo.Panamá -- ¿En qué casos está justificado el uso del engaño para conseguir información sobre un caso relevante de impunidad o corrupción? Todo periodista debe respetar la ley, pero ¿cuáles son los dilemas éticos en aquellos casos en los que el reportero se ve obligado a violar alguna ley para conseguir y publicar información de alto valor público?

I have developed an online Moodle educational platform in Panama to help hyper-busy journalists to receive training in their free time.

As a Mexican journalist living at the U.S.-Mexico border, I recognize the footprints of organized crime: drug-related executions, drug seizures, and drive-by shootings. I have seen these same signs in Panama. That’s why I think my project as a Knight International Journalism Fellow will be crucial for my Panamanian colleagues.

Citizens can tweet or submit an online form with their crime report. Soon they will be able to text as well. The reports are geo-tagged on a digital map using Ushahidi, an online platform that originated in Kenya to track violence during the elections.

Freelance journalists working in the Panama provinces are usually the last ones to receive training and support.

A big coalition of journalists, citizens and civil society organizations is being formed in Panama to track and reduce crime and corruption and prompt better governmental policies. 

It's been just a few weeks since our Website Mi Panama Transparente was launched to help journalists track crime and corruption using advanced online tools.

In early June 2010, the national television network TVN Channel 2 signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Journalists' Forum for Freedoms of Expression and Information of Panama to produce investigative journalism and promote the use of Mi Panamá Transparente's Web site among the people of this country.

Mi Panamá Transparente, an Internet site based on Ushahidi technology to track crime and corruption is now available for Panamanian citizens.

The Web site was developed as part of a Knight International Journalism Fellowships project in collaboration with the Fórum de Periodistas para las Libertades de Expresión e Información. The Fellowships program is administered by the [International Center for Journalists](http://icfj.atendesigngr