The Anti-Corruption Institute was founded in 2018. It is a non-profit organization, that seeks to identify, investigate and analyze the causes and effects of corruption, ethical violations, abuses of power and the wider lack of transparency, integrity and accountability in public administration and the private sector, both nationally and internationally, in order to propose comprehensive and multidisciplinary solutions aimed at the eradication, mitigation and/or control of the associated risks.
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Our observations on the draft Transparency, Integrity, Legality, Stewardship and Innovation Policy: The Road Towards an Open State
As one of the civil society organizations that make up the Open Government Alliance’s Open State Committee, we have the opportunity to present some observations on the draft of the Conpes document that was published for public comment on September 1 of this year.
Records of income and meetings from MicTIC associated with the Digital Centers project
The Anticorruption Institute makes available to journalists and citizens the records of income and meetings that the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications has maintained in relation to the process of design, award and supervision of the contractual process FTIC-LP-038-2020, which establishes the conditions for executing the Digital Centers project in region B, awarded from the Single Fund for Information and Communication Technologies to the Temporary Union of Populated Centers.
Opinion Columns:
Tinsel coins
Actually authorizes wasteful spending such as the purchase of commemorative coins signed by the President to be given to allies and friends (42 million Colombian Pesos), landscape gardening at Casa de Nariño (350 million Colombian Pesos) and maintenance of Baccarat lamps (five million per month).
Projects
Free open source data about the appointments, trips taken and gifts received by public officials.
Study and monitoring of the prosecution and sanctioning processes for corruption cases.
Audiovisual competition – call for entries. The time has come to show corruption the door. Sign up here.
Anti-Corruption Innovation Laboratory. Volunteers who dream about a Colombia free from corruption.
The best antidote to corruption is to promote and ensure a real culture of integrity.
Anti-Corruption Institute wins judicial process against the government to gain access to contracts for procurement of Covid-19 vaccines
On 21 May, 2021, the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca notified the Anti-Corruption Institute of its decision to order the national government to deliver, within a peremptory term of three business days, copies of the different contracts signed with pharmaceutical companies for the purchase of the Covid-19 vaccines during the pandemic. All information will be made public. Read document here.
Anti-Corruption Institute publishes copies of the contracts signed by the Colombian government and the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Pfizer
The Anti-Corruption Institute, in accordance with its commitment to defend transparency and in a bid to safeguard the fundamental right of access to public information, has published copies of the COVID-19 vaccine contracts between the Colombian Government and the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
