New Communication Technologies in the Fight against Corruption Rebecca LI Assistant Director of...

New Communication Technologies in the

Fight against Corruption

Rebecca LIAssistant Director of Operations

Independent Commission Against CorruptionHong Kong

Independent Commission Against Corruption

• Established in 1974

• Independent – answerable to Chief Executive, HKSAR

3 – Pronged Strategy

• Enforcement – Operations Department

• Prevention – Corruption Prevention Department

• Education – Community Relations Department

Community Relations Department

• Division 1

• Division 2

CRD – Division 2

7 Regional Offices

• Carry out prevention education through face-to-face contact

• Handle complaints & enquiries

CRD – Division 1

• Promote public awareness of the anti-corruption cause

• Disseminate anti-corruption messages through mass media

• Promote positive values through schools, etc.

CRD – Division 1 (cont’d)

Mass Media Publicity

• ICAC Advertisements

reflect changing corruption trends

• Drama Series:

ICAC Investigators 2004, 2007, 2009……

CHANGE

The Internet

www.icac.org.hk

www.icac.org.hk• Press Release

• Wanted Person

• Corruption Statistics

• Report Corruption – check list

• Checks & Balance

• Survey Data

www.icac.org.hk

Prevention & Education

• Corruption prone areas

• Corruption prevention best practices

• Awareness tests on corruption risks

www.icac.org.hk

ICAC International Anti- Corruption News

• Newsletter

• Counterparts related links

www.icac.org.hk

ICAC Channel

• Audio/visual channel

• ICAC’s internet platform for promoting probity messages & enhancing transparency

www.icac.org.hk

ICAC Channel : 2 Stations

• Infotainment Station

• Programme Station

www.icac.org.hk

ICAC Channel: Infotainment Station

• ICAC Express: ICAC major events

• In Focus: ICAC advertisements

• Conversations: cyber platform for experience sharing

• Zooming In: sr. officers’ experience

www.icac.org.hk

ICAC Channel: Programme Station

• ICAC Investigators……

• Drama series produced & broadcasted over the years

www.icac.org.hk

• ICAC Club

• TeensLand

www.icac.org.hk

• e-mail alert – Newsletter

• e-mail subscription – update on ICAC matters

www.icac.org.hk

What Next……?

Web 2.0 Services• Windows Live Services - One network concept

Challenges of Internet to Investigators

• Enable criminals’ commission of multiple crimes simultaneously

• Facilitate their commission of cross-border crime

• Difficulties in establishing true identity of users & in preserving the evidence

• Difficulties in overcoming anti-forensic tactics

• Opportunity for spreading anti-crime messages in borderless cyber world

The methods of the corrupt may change,

But the ICAC’s mission against corruption continues.

Internet / Web 2.0

borderless cyber platform to spread anti-corruption/ anti-fraud messages