WATCH DAY 1, October 25

8:00 - 8:10: Welcome | Ed Olowo-Okere, Director, Governance Global Practice, World Bank

8:10 - 9:15: Opening Plenary — The Growing Role of Data in Anticorruption | Moderator: Karen Allen, Senior Research Advisor, Institute for Security Studies, Johannesburg

• Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School, Berlin
• Delia Ferreira, Chair, Transparency International
• Elizabeth David-Barrett, Professor of Governance and Integrity at the University of Sussex and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption
• Emilia Díaz-Struck, ICIJ's Research Editor and Latin America Coordinator, Venezuela

9:15 - 10:30: Panel — New data-driven approaches to detect corruption | Chair: James Anderson, World Bank | Discussant: Mihaly Fazekas, Government Transparency Institute

• Smart Parser: An Applied Methodology for Extracting and Analyzing Disclosures Data in Russia ​​— Presenter: David Szakonyi
• New data-driven approaches to measuring corruption drivers and addressing collective action problems — Presenters: Leena Hoffmann (and Raj Patel)
• Conspiracy to Corrupt: Extraction and Analysis of Bribery Network Data from Deferred Prosecution Agreements — Presenters:Tomáš Diviák (and Nicholas Lord)

10:45 - 12:00: Panel — Measuring corruption in countries | Chair: Joel Turkewitz, IMF Legal Department | Discussant: Kristina Aquino, World Bank

• The local advantage: Corruption, organized crime, and indigenization in the Nigerian oil sector — Presenter: Jonah Rexer
• Open Data as an Anticorruption Tool: Establishing a Framework to Enhance Accuracy of Data — Presenter: Tatiana M. Martinez and Edgar A. Whitley
  

DAY 2, October 26

8:00 - 9:15: Panel — Machine learning techniques and advanced data to detect corruption | Chair: Alexandra Habershon, World Bank | Discussant: Ravi Kumar, World Bank

• Elaboration of Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods as Fraud Detection Tools in the National Health Insurance Policy: Lesson Learned from Indonesia​​ — Presenter: Raisa Annisa (Additional Authors: Lalu Garin Alham, Elisabeth Medina Saraswati, and Humam Faiq)
• The application of machine learning and mathematical models to fight corruption in the procurement process — Presenter: Confess Matete (Additional Authors: Paul Sambo, Eriyoti Chikodzi, Justin Chirima, Ackim Munthali, Jezepher Mudzvete and Elijah Chirinda)
• Fiscal Data in Text: Information Extraction from Audit Reports using NLP — Presenter: Alejandro Beltran

9:15 - 9:45: Technical Session — Procurement Anticorruption and Transparency (ProACT) Platform | Mihaly Fazekas, Government Transparency Institute

9:45 - 10:00: Lightening Talk — DigIntegrity: How data and technology are leveraging integrity policies in Latin America | Camilo Cetina, CAF, Development Bank of Latin America

10:15 - 10:45: Technical Session — Leveraging tech. to improve the management of integrity risks: Detecting patterns through data | Marcelo Donolo, World Bank

10:45 - 12:00: Panel — Measuring corruption transnationally | Chair: Erica Bosio, World Bank | Discussant: James Anderson, World Bank

• Anticorruption techs to face a global economy: federated learning, open data catalogues, and “blockchain” — Presenter: Danielle Mendes Thame Denny (Additional Authors: Philip Treleaven, Emre Kazim, Adriano Soares Koshiyama and Rares Dolga)
• Why are some public agencies less corrupt than others? Lessons for institutional reforms from survey data ​​— Presenter: Francesca Recanatini
• Fighting Corruption from Space - practitioners perspective — Presenter: Swetha Kolluri (Additional Author: Kandarp Patel)

DAY 3, October 27

8:00 - 9:15: Panel — Corruption in public administration | Chair: Elizabeth David-Barrett, University of Sussex and the Centre for the Study of Corruption | Discussant: Erica Bosio, World Bank

• Does Spending More in Public Governance Guarantee Less Corruption? Non-linearities and Complementarities of the Rule of Law — Presenter: Gonzalo Castaneda (Additional Author: Omar Guerrero)
• The impact of ownership transparency policies on illicit purchases of US property — Presenter: David Szakonyi (Additional Authors: Florian Hollenbach and Matt Collin

9:15 - 9:45: Special Session — World Development Report 2021 - Data for Better Lives | Malarvizhi Veerappan, World Bank

9:45 - 10:00: Lightening Talk — Data & Policy, a Peer-Reviewed, Open Access Journal Dedicated to the Impact of Data Science on Policy and Governance | Andrew Hyde, Cambridge University Press

10:15 - 10:45: Technical Session — The Power of Public Data: Analytics to Deter Corruption | Daniel Ortega, World Bank

10:45 - 12:00: Panel — Using new data sources and methods to measure the impacts of corruption | Chair: Bob Rijkers, World Bank | Discussant: Craig Hammer, World Bank

• Can the corruption fight hurt more than corruption itself? — Presenter: Raissa Dantas
• Sparrowhalk on firms? Do anti-national corruption policies impact firms’ perception towards corruption: Empirical evidence from anti-corruption campaign in Cameroon — Presenters: Soazic Elise Wang Sonne and Firmin Sosso Ngoutte
• Measuring the effectiveness of whistle-blower protection: A new index — Presenters: Shpresa Kaciku and Kyoung-Sun Kyle Min

DAY 4, October 28

8:00 - 9:15: Panel — Corruption in public procurement | Chair: Daniel Ortega, World Bank | Discussants: Marko Klasnja, Georgetown University; Knut Leipold, World Bank

• Measuring the risk of corruption in public procurement in the current Covid global emergency — Presenter: Michela Gnaldi (Additional Authors: Federico Morando, Davide Allavena, and Simone Del Sarto)
• Taming Corruption in Public Procurement using Open Linked Data and Anomaly Detection Techniques ​​— Presenter: Ahmet Soylu (Additional Authors:Oscar Corcho, Brian Elvesæter, Carlos Badenes-Olmedo, Francisco Yedro Martínez, Matej Kovacic, Matej Posinkovic, Mitja Medvešček, Ian Makgill, Chris Taggart, Elena Simperl, Till C. Lech, and Dumitru Roman)
• How to reduce bureaucratic corruption? Unpacking Brazilian anti-corruption audits — Presenters: Galileu Kim and Romain Ferrali

9:15 - 9:45: Technical Session — Assessing laws and regulations to undo state capture | Francesca Recanatini and David Bernstein, World Bank

10:00 - 11:15: Panel — Politics and corruption: Measuring corruption in political parties and elections | Chair: Francesca Recanatini, World Bank | Discussant: Camilo Cetina, CAF, Development Bank of Latin America

• Predicting Politicians’ Misconduct: Evidence from Colombia — Presenter: Jorge Gallego (Additional Authors: Mounu Prem and Juan Vargas)
• Risk of Corruption in Latin American Political Parties — Giovanna Rodriguez-Garcia
• Electoral corruption and opaque financial transactions: the case of Italy — Presenter: Marianna Siino (Additional Authors: Giacomo De Luca, Giuseppe De Feo, and Mario Gara)     

11:15am - 12:00pm: Closing Plenary — The Future of Data and Anticorruption | Moderator: Tracey Lane, Practice Manager, Governance, World Bank

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