Department of Government Ethics

  “Time to Wake up”, a Transparency International (TI) promotion video shot in Columbia, Lebanon, Kenya, Hungary and here in Taiwan, depicts a group of people who have forgotten their rights to combat corruption. With the splash onto their faces, TI puts across the idea that the mass public has woken up and ready to fight against corruption.

     In response to TI’s anti-corruption effort and UN’s International Anti-corruption Day, Taipei City Government held the "Time to Wake up: 9 December International Anti-Corruption Day Public Awareness Campaign" in Taipei at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 8th at the front gate square of Taipei Zoo. Aside from the "Promoting Clean Government and Ethical Society Courses" community college final presentations, the exhibition of outstanding transparency measures of the 4th TCG Administrative Transparency Prize, and TI’s anti-corruption video clips, clean government volunteers’ certificates were also awarded; Ifkids Theatre held an anti-corruption rally, and TCG Police Department and the Department of Health introduced their services. We hope to raise not just the voice of our anti-corruption appeal, but also issues concerning the mass public, such as crime prevention and hygiene. Together, we made Taipei, the city of vitality, corruption-free, efficient, and friendly.

     Several community colleges in Taipei participated in the 2012 Clean Government and Ethical Society Courses’ Final Presentations & Course Carnival, including Songshan Communitiy College’s “Cultivating PeoPo Online Citizen Journalists & Interviewing the National Effort of Establishing a Clean Government”, Da’an Community College’s “Hand in Hand We PICTURE an Upright Character in Me”, Wanhua Community College’s rallies, together with the exhibition of prize-winning transparency measures and TI’s multimedia materials which were both fun and intellectual.

     Moreover, to encourage outstanding clean government volunteers in 2012, we awarded all volunteer team leaders and the leader in chief on the same day with a certificate of gratitude to thank volunteers who took up the responsibility of keeping the city clean and upright. At the same time, we invited the well-received Ifkids Theatre to hold an anti-corruption rally, “Who’s Knocking on My Door”, and an after-show pop quiz with gifts to celebrate the day. The Department of Government Ethics of TCG claimed that the purport to organize a series of anti-corruption activities in 2012 was to raise the awareness of a clean government to gather anti-corruptive effort outside of the government.