Innovation Tag: Anticorruption and Integrity

Corruption is endemic in Nigeria and Africa in general and has become an anathema to development. The award-winning Nigeria Open Contracting Portal is a solution developed to curb the menace of corruption, achieve transparency and openness as well as facilitate citizen engagement.

In the first interaction with government, citizens should be able to access in a satisfactory way services: in a cost-effective and reliable process, without facing bureaucratic delays or corruption. For this purpose, an innovative system has been developed to deliver citizenship and land ownership certificates to citizens, through an open platform.  

The Statement of Interests and Assets system (abbreviated to DIP) allows monitoring assets and potential conflicts of interest of officials through business intelligence. Data mining is used to process new data to address audit teams. This innovation represents a change in the traditional auditing process that improves the efficiency and economy of our teams.

eHealth is a step-by-step digitalization of all interactions in the medical sphere up to the latest technology, interoperability & requirements. With a bottom-up approach civil society, state and business are creating an effective IT tool to fight corruption in healthcare before all legislation is in place. GoU sets up the rules and standards, while business creates final interfaces for users.

MTender system is a modern networking multi-platform eProcurement system that comprises a Central Database Unit and a number of networking commercial eProcurement platforms connected to the Central Database Unit. MTender was designed to ensure interoperability with existing and future e-Government services, national registers and to provide end-to-end online workflows for all public procurement methods.

The innovation was developed to tackle the problem of corruption in the Lithuanian healthcare sector. We conducted a Vitamin Lab experiment to find out if the change of the clinic’s environment indirectly affects the behaviour of patients, how it can influence their attitudes towards the clinic, increase transparency and reduce bribery. To our knowledge, it was one of the first initiatives to use this type of measured social design interventions in the context of healthcare sector corruption.

ProZorro is a hybrid electronic government e-procurement system created as the result of a partnership between business, government and the civil society in Ukraine. Innovative public procurement system delivering government services in a stakeholder-focused, transparent, fair and low-cost way. In two years of operation of ProZorro saved $1.9 billion of budget funds and became a leader in openess of goverment data on public procurement.

ProZorro.Sale is an electronic auction system aimed at transparent sales of state and local government assets. It involves a central database that conducts auctions and stores all the information about the transaction and commercial platforms connected to the database via Application Programming Interface (API). After the transaction all the information becomes public.

The Government of Argentina is implementing transparency, participation and accountability in the judiciary through two flagship initiatives from the Ministry of Justice: Open Justice and Justice 2020. Open Justice is an open data portal, and Justice 2020 is a civic engagement platform. Through these initiatives, the government is seeking to improve the relationship between society and the justice sector as well as justice service delivery.

The Price Bank enables public procurement parties to have points of reference for price quotes for particular products, as it is a database of electronic invoices issues in Brazil. Participants narrow their search via descriptors and filters to find the right quote.