Ukraine ready to share anti-corruption experience with int’l community: NAPC

Ukraine considers IT tools to be the basis for effective fight against corruption and is ready to share with the international community its experience in implementing them.

This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, Oleksandr Starodubtsev, at the 9th Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption, according to the NAPC press service.

"We believe that international cooperation is vital to combating corruption, and we are ready not only to talk about our experience, but also to prove our commitment to the UN Convention. We are ready to share the code of these products and adapt it to the needs of your organization. To help you develop a user-friendly interface and provide you with effective design solutions,” Starodubtsev said in an address to the countries participating in the Conference.

Starodubtsev's speech was dedicated to six innovative anti-corruption tools applied by the NAPC, designed to create a new system of relations between the state and its citizens.

Among them are the Register of Declarations, the Register of Political Party Reports POLITDATA, the Anti-Corruption Portal, the Concealed Interests Portal, the Register of Corrupt Persons, and the Corruption Reporting Portal, which will soon be presented by the Agency. Oleksandr Starodubtsev spoke about the main technical characteristics of the said tools and the results of their implementation.

According to the deputy chairman of the NAPC, today the world economy depends on rapid transactions, mobile banking, and cryptocurrency. Crisis conditions such as COVID-19 affect the way people act and create more opportunities for corruption. Thus, anti-corruption bodies cannot maintain outdated approaches to tackling graft as long as offenders operate in the digital domain.

To address the issue, the Ukrainian delegation proposed that a dedicated platform be developed for the exchange of best digital practices and tools applied around the world, similar to that of Europol's cybercrime cooperation.

He added that for truly effective cooperation in this area, it is especially important that all countries today share common data standards. In the future, this will facilitate data sharing and improve existing anti-corruption mechanisms.

The 9th Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption was held in Egypt on December 13-17.

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