A Wikipedia...

Imagine a Wikipedia specifically for corruption.  It would have entries for politicians, corporations, CEO's, lobbyists and other public notables.  When someone on the internet found out about, say, corporate wrongdoing by a corporation, instead of doing nothing they could help compile it, citing their source material, on the corporation's Wiki page

...with a difference...

Now imagine that this Wiki had crowd-funding built right in.  Each page would have its own embedded widget allowing everyday internet users to toss $50 or $100 into a fund for a particular entity.  When a given fund filled up, it would go to hiring an attorney to take that corrupt politician, corporation, or CEO to court.  Criminal charges, civil suits, impeachment (yes, this Wiki could have saved us from eight years of the Bush presidency), taking a case to court becomes a simple matter when the case against them has essentially been compiled by crowds of internet users.

...that gives back to you!

Now when you take an entity to civil court, damages are frequently awarded.  Punitive damages, civil damages, you can even sue to revoke a corporate charter and dissolve a corporation and its assets.  When a court awards damages, this Wiki can reapportion the funds back to the internet users who invested in the attorney's fund... in whatever proportion they invested.  That $100 someone threw into a fund could very easily turn into $1,000 or $10,000, depending on what the court awarded.  This Wiki would give internet users a profit motive to invest in accountability, and turn rampant corruption into a resource for the average internet user.  While more and more resources are becoming consolidated by a rich elite, those same resources are forfeit when they break the law.

A government accountable to the People

Healthy government takes more than going to a polling booth every four years and buying an "Impeach Bush" bumper sticker.  In the U.S., when you add up all the various taxes citizens generally pay almost half of what they earn to subsidize the government... but they haven't really been able to keep it accountable.  At that point it really doesn't matter who gets elected into office because they won't have to obey the law, or do what the People actually want.  This Wiki could solve all that.  Did you know that an Oath of Office is a legally binding public contract, and when a politician violates it they're personally liable?  The same goes for campaign promises.  If you had $100 every time a politician broke a campaign promise, what would you do with it?  And if politicians and corporations went broke themselves every time they broke the law, they couldn't keep on being corrupt.

Making it happen

Wiki software is already available free.  What's needed is PHP/MySQL coders who can write the new script to deal with the crowd-funding side of things.  Stuff like auto-creating and embedding a fund on each page, keeping track of which funds are how close to being funded, a place for attorneys to under-bid each other for the contract work, and a means of automating user notification.  That, site hosting, and promoting the site, is what we need the funding for.  Help bring this Wiki to completion, so you can live in a world not only where your government isn't corrupt, but where you can drop $100 into the internet and make ten times that by supporting the right thing.  At your option, I can include your name on a listing of donors who helped make the site possible (imagine the bragging rights of having a site like Wikipedia thank you for making it happen!).  And while I won't accept just any idea, donors will have the opportunity for some creative input on how to make the site even better.

Non-monetary support

If you want to make this happen but don't have any cash to give, you can still pitch in by promoting this page to those who do.  Twittering it, Digging it, Facebooking it, even just e-mailing a link to your friends would have a part in making sure this opportunity doesn't fade away.  Or recommend this project for the IndieGoGo frontpage, where more folks will find it!  Do it now, and support a world that actually works!