1209 Anti-Corruption Carnival─Mayor Ko invites You to Join the Online Puzzle Solving
Responding to the United Nations’ International Anti-corruption Day, which falls on December 9th, 2015, the Department of Government Ethics (DOGE) established the “1209 Anti-corruption Carnival” website (in Chinese) http://www.1209carnival.com on which the performances of the following anti-corruption events held by the DOGE are displayed: “the Administrative Transparency Awards”, “the Integrity Role Model Selection”, “the Corruption-Free Environment On-Campus”, “the Honest Cup College Debates”, and others. As the spokesman, Mayor Ko wen-je invites the public to join in and check out the website. Visitors who are seeking a challenge are encouraged to click on the “Integrity Patrol Team” icon to play the puzzle-solving game and get a chance to win a good prize.
In order to form the social atmosphere of “corruption-intolerance”, the DOGE has been actively putting a lot of efforts into holding different types of anti-corruption events. The DOGE collaborating with its subordinated volunteer groups set up the “Anti-corruption Volunteer Stations”, hoping to lift the general public’s anti-corruption consciousness through game playing and by asking people to sign for supporting corruption-fighting. Besides, to meet the needs of different age groups the DOGE tailors activities with different themes. For primary school kids, the “Corruption-Free Environment On-Campus” project aims to develop children’s integrity values via stage plays and animated cartoons. To promote parent-child story reading, the DOGE launched the “Children Integrity Month” project, in cooperation with Taipei City Library’s “Teacher Lin” storytelling team. As for college-aged youngsters¸ the “Honest Cup College Debates” have been held for nine consecutive years and become an important annual event in the college debating society. The competitions allow college students to more deeply explore anti-corruption issues through the debate process. Moreover, the DOGE entrusted the City’s community colleges to organize a series of workshops for creative works displays or exhibitions and public discussion forums. With the integration of ethical issues into the curriculum, hopefully a “clean government and ethical society” can be built through public participation.
On the “1209 Anti-corruption Carnival” website, various administrative transparency measures are displayed to help the public understand Taipei City Government’s efforts in promoting the openness and transparency of government information. Mayor Ko and the DOGE sincerely invite YOU ALL to join in and support a cleaner Taipei.