{"id":47960,"date":"2022-05-05T15:14:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47960"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:14:33","slug":"the-u-s-government-and-air-alliance-for-innovative-regulation-announce-first-techsprint-to-combat-global-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47960","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Government and AIR \u2013 Alliance for Innovative Regulation Announce First TechSprint to Combat Global Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/05\/2022 05:10 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Department of State\u2019s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and\u00a0Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes\u00a0are partnering with the\u00a0AIR to support an inaugural\u00a0<i>Anti-Corruption Solutions through Emerging Technologies (ASET) Global Anti-Corruption\u00a0TechSprint<\/i>\u00a0to combat global corruption.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Corruption undermines democracy and respect for human rights, impedes investment, stifles economic growth, hampers government services, and allows criminality to flourish.\u202f Responding to this transnational threat, President Biden established fighting corruption as a core U.S. national security interest, releasing the first-ever U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption, and elevating the fight against corruption as a pillar of the Summit for Democracy.\u00a0The TechSprint allows for a collaboration with other governments, the private sector, civil society, and the responsible use of technology in the fight against corruption, which are core elements of both effective implementation of the strategy, and the Summit for Democracy\u2019s Year of Action.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The development and implementation of effective anti-corruption mechanisms consistent with international standards \u2013 and the ability to meet evolving corruption challenges \u2013 is vital to peace and prosperity and is a key Department of State commitment for the Summit for Democracy.\u00a0 INL\u2019s ASET program advances the Administration\u2019s anti-corruption strategy by supporting efforts to accelerate technological solutions to combat corruption worldwide.\u00a0This multi-day virtual competition will bring together anti-corruption stakeholders from across government, civil society, and the private sector, to spur new ideas and relationships around anti-corruption measures, with a particular emphasis on financial solutions. The TechSprint prototypes may be further developed, tested, and adapted for global use by the teams that develop them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">INL works to keep Americans safe by countering crime, illegal drugs, and instability abroad.\u00a0 The bureau is working around the world to, among other measures, build the capacity of foreign justice sector partners to investigate and prosecute complex corruption cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/05\/2022 05:10 PM EDT Office of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47961,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960\/revisions\/47961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}