Knowledge Partner Session - Innovating for integrity during wartime: Ukraine’s developments since 2022. Presented by Basel Institute on Governance
Mar 26, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PMKnowledge Partner Sessions (Auditorium)
Mar 26, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Knowledge Partner Sessions (Auditorium)
Description
Despite wartime, Ukraine continues to develop digital innovations highly relevant to corruption prevention efforts. Transformative reforms such as the Prozorro (procurement) and the Prozorro.Sale e-systems, as well as DIIA (e-identification and e-public service infrastructure), eHealth, Reserv+ (military conscription), DREAM (restoration transparency) or the E-declarations register for public officials have been designed to address high-corruption risk public services and, with some modifications, continue to operate effectively during wartime.
While celebrating these innovations, the panel will also look critically to address remaining challenges and discuss the security vs. transparency trade-offs of data openness during a full-scale war.
Speakers
Introductory Remarks
• Nicolas Descoeudres, Deputy Head of Mission, Minister, Permanent Representation of Switzerland to the OECD
• Betsy Andersen, Executive Director, Basel Institute for Governance
Panelists:
• Viktor Pavlushyk, Head, National Agency for Corruption Prevention
• Andrii Borovyk, Executive Director, Transparency International Ukraine
• Serhii Gunko, Senior Program Manager, East Europe Foundation
• Oksana Huss, Research fellow, Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security, and co-founder, Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network
• Gavin Hayman, Executive Director, Open Contracting Partnership (TBC)
Moderator: Juhani Grossmann, Senior Advisor, Central and Eastern Europe, Basel Institute on Governance
Rundown
Overview - Juhani Grossmann
Opening Remarks - Betsy Andersen and Swiss Delegation to OECD
Panel overview (Grossmann)
Innovation 1: E-declarations: Asset and income declarations for public officials (Pavlushyk)
Innovation 2: “Prozorro & Prozorro.Sale”: Procurement and public assets sales systems. (Borovyk)
Innovation 3: “DIIA”: Paperless hard identification and public service system. (Gunko)
Innovation 4: “DREAM”: Transparent and Accountable Restoration. (Hayman)
Innovation 5: Anti-corruption tools and resilience in Ukraine’s local self government (hromadas) (Huss)
First round of questions: How does the tool you described help address past corruption, and what has changed as a result of its introduction?
Second round of questions: What are the challenges of implementing your tool’s reform during wartime?
Public Q&A
Closing remarks
