Dec 9 was Anti-Corruption Day. What I find fascinating is one little group, the Fifth Pillar, that tackles corruption from the perspective of a civil society. If citizens stop giving bribes to corrupt officials, officials will stop asking. If you were in a situation where you needed to get your housing, your water, your electricity, would you give the bribe? Fifth Pillar provides people with zero rupee notes in India to give to official who are expecting a bribe. (It has similar notes for other countries.)
There are, of course, major organizations such as Transparency International, an advocate for greater transparency , that is visibility, as a means to reduce corruption in the public sector and throughout society. This idea caught on with the UN, the sponsor of Anti-Corruption Day. We feel that we don't have much corruption in the United States. Ours is perhaps more subtle. You might check your website and see what is visible to the public from your meeting minutes to electronic processing of bills.
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