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What can design do to fight corruption? It can provide a tool for people who want to stand up to it. Handing this zero rupee note to corrupt officials in India had this effect:

One official in Tamil Nadu was so stunned to receive the note that he handed back all the bribes he had solicited for providing electricity to a village. Another stood up, offered tea to the old lady from whom he was trying to extort money and approved a loan so her granddaughter could go to college.

The full story at the economist.

~alex