ACRC Builds Comprehensive Corruption Information System to Enable Users to See Anti-corruption Related Data at a Glance

- On 2 March, ‘Clean Portal - Corruption & Public Interest Infringement Report’ started its operation for sharing and analysis of anti-corruption big data -

(2 March 2021, ACRC)

Various anti-corruption information scattered around will be put together into a system to systemically diagnose vulnerable areas.

On March 2, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Jeon Hyun-Heui) completed the development of the third phase of Clean Portal, ‘Clean Portal - Corruption and Public Interest Infringement Report’ which is designed to help citizens have an easy access to the government’s anti-corruption policies and systems online.

This will enable systemic diagnosis and analysis of corruption vulnerable areas reflecting social changes, and the results of which will be linked to policies of all government agencies to improve transparency in the public sector and thereby enhance national integrity level under the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), a measurement of integrity level of countries around the world.

The ACRC had conducted the three-phase ‘Clean Portal - Corruption and Public Interest Infringement Report’ which is a comprehensive anti-corruption information system designed to digitalize various anti-corruption information and analyze corruption cases, media reports, and contents of consultation.

The 3rd phase, which is the final stage, enables ordinary citizens to have an easy access to corruption – related information thanks to its intellectual information analysis system.

Citizens can use the portal to check ▴current corruption issues, ▴development by the type of reports, ▴current status of reports by regions and ▴anti-corruption trend among others.

Public organizations can use the portal to carry out anti-corruption policies based on various data provided by the portal such as ▴competent authority reporting status, ▴report on specific corruption issues, ▴media report keywords, ▴report-handling status and ▴statistics of the disciplined.

Celebrating the opening of the completed Clean Portal, the ACRC has enhanced the portal’s ‘Report Guide’ service to help citizens file a report on corruption and public interest infringement without any difficulty. ‘Online Handling Status’ information will be provided in detail so that citizens can file a report and consultation request and check the status of their compensation and protection underway.

The portal has improved its accuracy as well by reflecting newly added laws subject to Public Interest Reporter Protection Act as recently amended, and applying sophisticated techniques that automatically categorize report types, acts of violation, and applicable laws.

Enhanced version of Mobile ‘Clean Portal - Corruption and Public Interest Infringement Report’ will kick off on March 2 as well.

Director General Han Sam-suk for Anti-Corruption Bureau of the ACRC said, “The completion of the three-phase Clean Portal has enabled data-based scientific and systemic policy implementation. The Clean Portal is expected to serve as a stepping stone for Korea to become an advanced country in terms of integrity by moving up to the top 20s in CPI by 2022.