Anti-Corruption Innovation Hub (UK0066)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: United Kingdom – Third National Action Plan 2016-18
Action Plan Cycle: 2016
Status: Inactive
Institutions
Lead Institution: Cabinet Office (Government Digital Service)
Support Institution(s): Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Several countries have expressed interest in participating in the Hub: Switzerland, Indonesia, Spain, Georgia, UAE, Australia, Norway and France. The Omidyar Network will provide support to the Hub. In addition Thomson Reuters, Vodafone and Transparency International have also expressed interest in working with the UK during the incubation phase.
Policy Areas
Anti-Corruption, Anti-Corruption Institutions, E-Government, Private Sector, Public Participation, Science & TechnologyIRM Review
IRM Report: United Kingdom End-of-Term Report 2016-2018, United Kingdom Mid-Term Report 2016-2018
Starred: No
Early Results: Did Not Change
Design i
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Access to Information , Civic Participation , Technology
Implementation i
Description
Objective: To connect and catalyze innovative approaches to anti-corruption.
Status quo: Current efforts to innovate in tackling corruption are often scattered, piecemeal, and do not always utilize the benefits of scale. We need new coalitions to connect social innovators, technology experts, and businesses with law enforcement and civil society organizations to share experience and disseminate good practice that could be replicated and customized in different countries and contexts.
Ambition: Champion the use of innovative ways to report, detect and investigate corruption; collaborate on identifying and supporting, emerging anti-corruption innovations; share good practice and promote the use of anti-corruption innovations, and use established conferences and multilateral stakeholder groups to highlight innovative anti-corruption initiatives and opportunities for collaboration.
IRM End of Term Status Summary
4. Anti-Corruption Innovation Hub
Commitment Text:We will incubate an Anti-Corruption Innovation Hub to connect social innovators, technology experts and data scientists with law enforcement, business and civil society to collaborate on innovative approaches to anti-corruption.
Objective:To connect and catalyse innovative approaches to anti-corruption.
Status quo:Current efforts to innovate in tackling corruption are often scattered, piecemeal, and do not always utilise the benefits of scale. We need new coalitions to connect social innovators, technology experts, and businesses with law enforcement and civil society organisations to share experience and disseminate good practice that could be replicated and customised in different countries and contexts.
Ambition:Champion the use of innovative ways to report, detect and investigate corruption; collaborate on identifying and supporting, emerging anti-corruption innovations; share good practice and promote the use of anti-corruption innovations, and use established conferences and multilateral stakeholder groups to highlight innovative anti-corruption initiatives and opportunities for collaboration.
Milestones:
1. Establish Innovation Hub
2. Showcase examples of innovative approaches to tackling corruption at the 2016 OGP Summit in Paris in December 2016
3. Operationalise innovation hub
Responsible institution: Cabinet Office (Government Digital Service)
Supporting institution(s): Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Start date: May 2016
End date: May 2017
Commitment Aim:
This commitment emerged from the UK government's anti-corruption plan in the second action plan and, more specifically, the UK-led May 2016 International Anti-Corruption Summit, when different groups were brought together to discuss anti-corruption activities.[Note 32: HM Government ‘Anti-Corruption Plan', https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388894/UKantiCorruptionPlan.pdf; Thom Townsend and William Gerry, Cabinet Office, 14 September 2017.] There were no mechanisms or means of sharing ideas or learning, or for building links between, for example, open data innovators and governments. The hub is designed to spread knowledge, create collaborations and champion and spread innovative approaches to identifying corruption between selected countries and organisations.[Note 33: Thom Townsend and William Gerry, Cabinet Office, 14 September 2017.]
Status
Midterm: Limited
The commitment was behind schedule at the end of the first year. The government highlighted their showcasing of developments at the OGP summit in Paris in December 2016 as evidence of the commitment's progress.[Note 34: Cabinet Office ‘Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2016-18:
Mid-term Self Assessment Report' (UK government report September 2017) passed to author pre-publication. ] However, as of November 2017, ministers were still working with officials on plans for the commitment's promised innovation hub, which was overdue and not yet operational.[Note 35: Cabinet Office (2017), Open Government National Action Plan 2016-18: November 2017 Commitment Progress Updates, https://www.opengovernment.org.uk/resource/og-nap-2016-18-november-2017-commitment-progress-updates/ ]
End of term: Limited
There has been some evidence of movement and continued work but only limited progress with no outputs so far. The UK Home Office (Ministry of the Interior) assumed responsibility for the commitment in late 2017. The Joint Anti-Corruption Unit had ‘contracted a consultant to do scoping work in furtherance of this commitment', with a remit to look into possible ways forward for the policy. At the time of writing it was not clear what this would be. In the final update of April 2018, the UK government outlined how it was continuing to ‘review options to develop and promote innovative approaches to combat corruption and consider how to support this going forward.'
Did It Open Government?
Access to Information: Did Not Change
Civic Participation: Did Not Change
The original commitment was designed to fill a gap in global anti-corruption work, creating a hub where government, officials, CSOs and others could share knowledge and develop new ideas, of a kind that did not exist anywhere in the world. However, the hub was not put into place or made operational; it had no effect on opening government in either of the three areas. Some progress was made in meetings and discussing ideas. However, the commitment did not result in new information or data being made available, or enable the wider involvement of groups, stakeholders or the public. There was clearly an intent throughout to innovate with technology in some way, given the involvement of ‘innovators, technology experts and data scientists', but this has not happened.
Carried Forward?
This commitment has not been carried forward into a new action plan.
Commitments
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Grants Data
UK0090, 2019, Access to Information
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Digital Charter
UK0091, 2019, Access to Information
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Open Policy Making
UK0092, 2019, Public Participation
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Open Contracting Data
UK0093, 2019, Access to Information
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Natural Resource Transparency
UK0094, 2019, Access to Information
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Innovation in Democracy Programme
UK0095, 2019, Public Participation
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Sustainable Open Government
UK0096, 2019, Capacity Building
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Local Transparency
UK0097, 2019, Access to Information
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Beneficial Ownership – UK
UK0063, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Natural Resource Transparency
UK0064, 2016, Access to Information
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Anti-Corruption Strategy
UK0065, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Anti-Corruption Innovation Hub
UK0066, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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Open Contracting
UK0067, 2016, Access to Information
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Grants Data
UK0068, 2016, Access to Information
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Elections Data
UK0069, 2016, Access to Information
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Revising Freedom of Information Act Code of Practice
UK0070, 2016, Access to Information
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Identifying and Publishing Core Data Assets
UK0071, 2016, Access to Information
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Involving Data Users in Shaping the Future of Open Data
UK0072, 2016, Access to Information
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Better Use of Data Assets
UK0073, 2016, Access to Information
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GOV.UK
UK0074, 2016, Access to Information
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Ongoing Collaborative Approach to Open Government Reform
UK0075, 2016, E-Government
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Open Government at All Levels
UK0076, 2016, Public Participation
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Open Policy-Making and Public Engagement
UK0077, 2016, Capacity Building
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Public Sector Innovation
UK0078, 2016, Access to Information
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OCDS Implementation
UK0079, 2016, Access to Information
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Open-Up Government
UK0080, 2016, Access to Information
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Open Data Plan
UK0081, 2016, Access to Information
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Open Data Service
UK0082, 2016, Access to Information
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Statswales
UK0083, 2016, Access to Information
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Data Research Centre Wales
UK0084, 2016, E-Government
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Government Social Research Publication Protocol
UK0085, 2016, E-Government
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Gov.Wales
UK0086, 2016, E-Government
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Code of Practice in Supply Chains
UK0087, 2016, Labor
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National Indicators for Wales
UK0088, 2016, Fiscal Openness
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Well-Being Duty
UK0089, 2016, Anti-Corruption
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National Information Infrastructure
UK0042, 2013,
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NHS England Website and Network
UK0043, 2013, Health
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Revised Local Authories Data Transparency Code
UK0044, 2013, Capacity Building
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Transparent Social Investment Market
UK0045, 2013, Access to Information
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Manage and Capture Digital Records
UK0046, 2013, Capacity Building
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Cross-Government Anti-Corruption Plan
UK0047, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Company Beneficial Ownership Information
UK0048, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Access to Police Records
UK0049, 2013, Justice
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Transparency in Construction
UK0050, 2013, Infrastructure & Transport
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Legislative Openness
UK0051, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Whistleblowing
UK0052, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Open Contracting
UK0053, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Open Contracting Scotland
UK0054, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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International Aid Transparency
UK0055, 2013, Access to Information
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Health Care Data
UK0056, 2013, Access to Information
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Open Policy Making
UK0057, 2013, E-Government
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Sciencewise
UK0058, 2013, E-Government
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Publication of Draft Legislation
UK0059, 2013, Open Parliaments
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OpenDataCommunities Programme
UK0060, 2013, Access to Information
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PSI Re-Use Directive
UK0061, 2013, Access to Information
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Extractive Transparency
UK0062, 2013, Access to Information
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Ensuring a Clear Process to Support Reduction in Collection of ‘Unnecessary Data’
UK0024, 2011, E-Government
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Developing Data.Gov.Uk and Identifying Other Digital Channels to Support Users
UK0025, 2011,
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Evidence and Databases Behind Policy Statements
UK0026, 2011, E-Government
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Data Underlying Surveys
UK0027, 2011, E-Government
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Examining Ways for Improving the Use of Existing Published Data
UK0028, 2011, E-Government
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Stimulate the Market for Innovative Use of Open Data
UK0029, 2011, Access to Information
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Spend up to 5% of Budget Support on Accountability
UK0030, 2011, E-Government
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Include the OGP Eligibility Criteria to Determine Readiness for UK Budget Support
UK0031, 2011, Aid
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Publish Aid Information from All ODA Government Departments
UK0032, 2011, Aid
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Use a Single Domain for Government Services
UK0033, 2011, E-Government
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Mandate ‘Channel Shift’
UK0034, 2011, E-Government
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Go Online for All Consultations
UK0035, 2011, E-Government
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Develop Practical Guidelines on Departmental Access to Internet and Social Media
UK0036, 2011, Civic Space
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Open Data and Application Interfaces in Ways That Encourage Businesses
UK0037, 2011, Access to Information
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Create Cross-Government Standards on APIs
UK0038, 2011, Public Participation
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Establish Standardised Formats for User-Satisfaction Data
UK0039, 2011, Public Participation
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Provide Government Documents in Open Standard Format
UK0040, 2011, Access to Information
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Implement Crowd-Sourcing and Engagement Processes
UK0041, 2011, Public Participation
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New Power to Secure Release of Valuable Datasets
UK0001, 2011,
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New, Higher Cost Cap for FOI
UK0002, 2011, Access to Information
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Meaningful Disincentives
UK0003, 2011,
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Maximum Time Limits
UK0004, 2011, Access to Information
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Altered Procurement Rules
UK0005, 2011,
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Mandating Phased Introduction of ‘Public by Default’
UK0006, 2011, E-Government
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Formalising Public Data Principles
UK0007, 2011,
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Having in Place an Open Data Compliance Monitoring Process
UK0008, 2011,
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Making Clear the Minimum Citizens Can Expect on Publication and Quality of Data
UK0009, 2011,
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Ensuring a Line of Continuous Improvement for Public Service Providers
UK0010, 2011, Access to Information
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Encourage Continuous Improvement
UK0011, 2011,
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Setting Out How Citizens Can Challenge Where There Is Failure in the Process
UK0012, 2011, Public Participation
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Establishing an Obligation to Consider and Act on User Feedback
UK0013, 2011, Public Participation
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Making Clear That Licenses Must Cover Free, Commercial Re-Use
UK0014, 2011,
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Merge Information Asset Registers…Into a Single Data Inventory
UK0015, 2011,
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Set Consistent Expectations of the Appropriate Quality of Meta-Data
UK0016, 2011, Records Management
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For Data Co-Ordinated Across Government, Set Definitions
UK0017, 2011, E-Government
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Introducing Corporate Responsibility at Transparency Board Level
UK0018, 2011,
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Strengthening and Broadening the Public Sector Transparency Board
UK0019, 2011, Anti-Corruption
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Bringing the Sector Transparency Board Model to Other Parts of Public Sector
UK0020, 2011, Anti-Corruption
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Reviewing the Existing Governance and Regulatory Model
UK0021, 2011,
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Establishing a Framework for Public Service Providers Data Inventories
UK0022, 2011, Records Management
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Developing a Clear Methodology to Support Intelligent Inventories
UK0023, 2011,