Transparency International (TI) is an international organisation addressing corruption, including, but not limited to, political corruption. For the political science journal, see: International Organization An international organization (also called intergovernmental organization) is an organization of international scope or character. ... World map of the Corruption Perceptions Index In broad terms, political corruption is the misuse of public (governmental) power for illegitimate, usually secret, private advantage. ...

Presented for the first time at the fact that it is based on polls indicating the "subjective appreciation of the polled people as to the amount of corruption in the studied countries rather than on objective information." It has also been asserted that what is legally defined, or perceived, to be corruption differs between jurisdictions: a political donation legal in some jurisdiction may be illegal in another. Likewise, one country's acceptable tip may be another country's unacceptable bribe. Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. ...

To such criticism, TI replies that it indeed uses comparative methods as developed in recent decades by authoritative institutions and that also its aim is in any case to develop a convergence of views on corruption, including engendering a united front in relation to how integrity can become ingrained in civic processes.

A review of the linkages between countries' competitiveness and the incidence of corruption was initiated at a TI workshop in the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Prague, November 1989. Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ...

The Transparency-Blog-Incident

In March 2006 TI Germany attempted to ban an article from a German Blog^[1]. In this article the blogger expressed her disapproval about a friend’s dismissal who used to work at TI Germany. This led many German bloggers to protest against TI’s offensive method of suppressing the freedom of opinion by dissuasion (possibly by way of action later) rather than a dialog with the young - unemployed - blogger.

This reaction of the German blogosphere aroused increased media interest - first web magazines, later the printed press reported about this case^[2]. After the blogger got some help from an also blogging German lawyer, TI Germany and the blogger came to an agreement, and after the press’s reactions increased the pressure on TI. TI Germany never published a conclusive comment on this (a press release making some details on the monthly income of the affected employee was withdrawn very quickly).

In this context, the online edition of the Tagesschau (German newsmagazine of the public TV station ARD) published an article which quotes the TI Germany board member Jochen Bäumel. Bäumel is a former correspondent of the ARD and that this article delineated the dispute only from TI's point of view. In the meantime, the article was revised^[3], but the old version is still online^[4]. The tagesschau (view of the Day) is a news show which is broadcast several times every day on German language television stations. ...

See also

• Corruption Perceptions Index
• Transparency (humanities)
• Nu Da Spaga

Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Index of perception of corruption ordering the countries of the world according to the level of public perception of corruption of public and political functionaries. ... In the physical sciences, specifically in optics, a transparent physical object is one that can be seen through. ... Nu Da Şpagă (Dont Bribe) is a national anti-corruption campaign launched in Romania in 2004 to deal with the problem of corruption in that country. ...

External links

• Official site | TI's mission statement
• TI's Global Corruption Report
• International Anti-Corruption Conference

References

1. ↑ Blog: gedankenträger
2. ↑ Gebloggte Meinungen David Fischer-Kerli, taz, retrieved 29.03.2006
3. ↑ Transparency International im Clinch mit Weblogs Fiete Stegers, tagesschau.de, retrieved 30.03.2006
4. ↑ Transparency International im Clinch mit Weblogs Fiete Stegers, tagesschau.de, retrieved 28.03.2006