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