Following our Monday 31 January discussion on Raising the Bar on SAFM’s Late Night Conversations with Patricia Ntuli, here are links to the creative anti-corruption initiatives and resources we discussed on the show.
If you missed the show and would like to hear it, you can listen to the podcast here .
Using film and music to promote integrity
We spoke about two Accountability Lab initiatives: Integrity Icon and Voice2Rep
Navigate to these and other Accountability Lab initiatives from: https://accountabilitylab.org/
You can follow the initiatives via their FaceBook page:
https://www.facebook.com/IntegrityIconGlobal
Take the time to catch up on Integrity Icon and Voice2Rep annual programmes in other African countries – you will be blown away by the Voice2Rep Nigeria Album, In These Present Times – available on Spotify and ITunes. Watch the music videos on the Voice2Rep page to get an idea of the production quality of the music coming out of the series.
Even the anti-corruption community takes these initiatives seriously, read their views here:
By Shanil Wijesinha for Global Anti-Corruption Blog (27 July 2018): Lights, Camera, Integrity? From “Naming and Shaming” to “Naming and Faming”
By Shirin Alhauser for Global Anti-Corruption Blog (2 August, 2019): ‘Conspicuous integrity’ can change national perceptions of graft
TV Drama Series and Reality TV against Corruption
China has excelled in the use of these mediums to raise awareness of the problem of corruption.
Here is an article written around the time of the launch of the riveting ‘In the Name of the People’: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39524084, and enjoy reading about the support the series has from the government. Here is the show’s Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Name_of_the_People_(TV_series)
Read a very recent article on the series, ‘TV show on corruption hooks China‘ in the Taipei Times here:
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/01/19/2003771669
Tourism against Corruption
If the idea of the bus tours, like CORRUPTOURS and KLEPTOBUS appealed to you, learn more about these powerful activities. For example:
In Mexico young people are running open-top bus tours to help people to visualise corruption and focus on its impacts. Highly recomment the short BBC clip at:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-40903832
In London a former Russian banker, Roman Borisovich, has powerfully turned the spotlight is on the mansions bought with dirty money by Russian and Ukrainian politicians and their cronies. Read this insightful piece from The Guardian: ‘Kleptocracy tours’ expose state failure to stop dirty money buying up London.
When it comes to tourism we should talk about amusements too.
Learn about the Ukraine ‘Corruption Park’ in this Reuters article:
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-corruption-park/4443728.html
Perhaps this initiative amongst others helped actor / comedian Volodymyr Zelensky become President of the Ukraine – he campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket.
Art against Corruption
If you were interested in the works produced by artists for the Inter-American Development Bank competition some years back, won by a Columbian cartoonist, you can see some of the examples via this article: https://www.iadb.org/en/news/news-releases/2015-12-07/cartoon-contest-on-corruption-in-latin-america,11352.html
It was taken seriously enough to have a write up by Sarah Krys in the Global Anti-Corruption Blog of 19 February 2016: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2016/02/19/fighting-corruption-with-art-successfully-raising-public-awareness/
Comedy against Corruption
A good read, ‘Corruption should be a laughing matter’, again from the Global Anti-Corruption Blog and by Brooke Davies 14 June 2021https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/06/14/corruption-should-be-a-laughing-matter/#more-18165
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