New Delhi, June 21, 2012 : The Central Vigilance
Commission's e-initiative to fight corruption has received
appreciation from the World Bank.
Officials said the World Bank was impressed with the
technological innovation in the especially designed project
of the CVC -- VIG EYE -- a web-based system to report
corruption by uploading videos, audios or raising complaints
online which was showcased during a recently organised meet in
the United States to discuss ways to check graft.
The second biennial meeting of the International
Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA) was organised at World Bank
headquarters in Washington and attended by representatives of
170 nations.
The ICHA, which is an initiative of the World Bank's
Integrity Division, is a grouping of prosecutors,
investigators, heads of anti-corruption authorities, supreme
audit institutions and international organisations involved in
anti-corruption activities.
The World Bank had specially invited R Sri Kumar,
Vigilance Commissioner, and K Subramaniam, Director in the
probity watchdog, to make a presentation on the 'VIG EYE'
complaint handling system during the conference.
"The World Bank seems to be highly impressed with the
initiative of VIG EYE as a technological innovation to fight
corruption. VIG EYE attracted so much attention of the
conference that the cover page of the agenda booklet of the
conference carried a photo of Indian woman with mobiles
illustrating the use of VIG EYE," an official said.
After the two-day conference held on June 5-6, a training
workshop was organised for the participants at the George
Washington University Law School, Washington on 'stolen asset
recovery'.
Officials said the participants in the workshop were
impressed with the CVC initiative and asked for another
presentation.
The conference focused on three themes, international
cooperation, national enforcement and innovation in the use of
information technology in the fight against corruption.
"The good show of Project VIG EYE at the whistleblower
session got a special mention from the World Bank VP Integrity
at the closing session of ICHA and a request for a special
performance for the World Bank select gathering again," Sri
Kumar said.
The CVC delegation participated in various thematic
discussion including ones on measuring the results of
anti-corruption authorities and tools and resources for
sharing anti-corruption information.
The gathering was specifically shown a computer based
system to address corruption in public service delivery
developed by Peru, a mobile based application to report
corruption in the mining of minerals developed by Democratic
Republic of Congo and CVC's VIG EYE.
"Vigilance Commissioner Kumar made a detailed
presentation along with live demonstration on the use of the
VIG EYE complaint handling system and global project
management system (GPMS).
"He highlighted how a popular and easy to use device like
mobile phone can be used to report corruption along with the
capture of voice and video clips as evidence," the official
said adding that the presentations were very well received by
the global audiences.
The VIG EYE was launched by former Central Vigilance
Commissioner P J Thomas in December 2010 since then it has
been running on a pilot basis.
"The results have been encouraging and after carrying out
modifications the project would be scaled up," the official
said.
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