egovernment for Transparency International conference on egovernment for Development Palermo, Italy, 10-11 April 2002 B. Shadrach Transparency International 1
egovernment examples Respondanet OPEN system Visible Candidates Nosamo.org E-Parliament Electronic Graft Management And many more... 2
The Context The extent of egovernance programmes The Internet growth igovernment approach Culture in government Stakeholders in the process The bribing culture The Intranet and closed networks 3
TI s National Integrity System Pillars of National Integrity Public Awareness Public anti-corruption strategies Public participation Watch-dog agencies The Judiciary The Media The private sector International co operation These pillars are interdependent; identifying opportunities for reinforcing and utilising each of these pillars in the fight against corruption is key 4
TI - NIS studies 18 studies completed following the Global Forum 36 more studies among the Commonwealth countries Weaknesses & snapshots identified Possible egov best practices support in order to strengthen the weak pillars 5
What are the weaknesses? some examples Argentina no mechanism to inform the socities how political parties are financed Botswana Billing system at the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Bulgaria More public support and involvement needed for a strategy to combat corruption Canada Political party funding is the weak link in the integrity system (Canadaian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission s report) Colombia Lack of support to watch-dog agencies 6
Germany Comparision of Corruption perception with egov and Global IT indices 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 7 Finland Denmark New Zealand Iceland Singapore Sweden Canada Netherlands Luxembourg Norway Australia Switzerland United Kingdom Hong Kong Austria Israel USA Chile Ireland Top 20 'clean' Countries CPI TI s Corruption Perception Index (list 91 countries) egov Ranking by the World Market Research Centre (lists 195) Global IT Report Ranking on egovernment (lists 75) CPI egov Global IT report Ranking
Uzb ekistan India Honduras Comparison with CPI 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 CPI TI s Corruption Perception Index (list 91 countries) egov Ranking by the World Market Research Centre (lists 195) Global IT Report Ranking on egovernment (lists 75) 8 Zambia Vietnam Bangladesh Nigeria Uganda Indonesia Kenya Cameroon Bolivia Azerbaijan Ukraine Tanzania Russia Pakistan Ecuador Nicaragua Cote d' Ivoire Most 'corrupt' countries CPI egov Global IT Ranking
Accenture study Reveals that service maturity is high in sectors such as Postal, Revenue, Education, Administration, regulation and democracy Low in Justice and Public safety Mature from publish to interact to transact (from Internet presence to active interaction to maximising the service potential) Portal are emerging as a result of igovernment structures Major changes in political and administrative structures to provide for the leadership required 9
Major challenges Knowledge of IT and IT security IT Contractors and organisational vulnerability Corruption-prone organisations The urgency to egovernance Technical issues (Authentication/passwords; Content management; Outsourcing, and, Premature technology) Audit trials Minimum standard guidelines 10
Major challenges Early premature government plans have to be quickly transformed Loosly framed egovernment plans pose a new threat of ecorruption Platform builders should benefit from the innovative leaders and their followers quickly The nature of ecommerce is the new century 11
Transparency International s offer Can take across the OPEN system through TI s interested national chapters Pakistan would like one in Urdu Can address NIS weaknesses with egovernment solutions through TI s chapters Can work with interested organisations both private and academic for combatting ecorruption Evaluating the impact of eprocurement projects Explore the possibility of developing integrity pacts (TI- IP) for egovernment services 12