The paper is devoted to the examination of functional features of anti-corruption activities in Russian public government bodies and authorities using the cognitive modeling method . Currently, a contradictory situation is observed in corruption related assessment practice. At present, the leadership of public authorities reports on a decrease in acts of corruption whereas the statistics testify rather to the persistence of the previous level of corruption offenses than to the decline. Employees are concerned about the increasing requirements related to compliance with anti-corruption restrictions, as well as income, expenses and property obligations reporting. Citizens continue to express distrust in government bodies and state apparatus as a whole. These contradictions could be resolved if the interests of both employees of state bodies and citizens of the country are taken into account. It is assumed that when assessing anti-corruption environment effectiveness, it is advisable to take into account not only the risks of citizens, but also the risks of public officials and state authority’s employees. We applied cognitive modeling as it is difficult to formalize most stages of government bodies` activities, whereas we need to take into account many factors and conflicting goals that have complex weakly structured relationships. Fishbone Diagram or Cause-and-Effect-Diagram and the cognitive map were basic initial stage of cognitive modeling which allowed conducting the analysis of external and internal factors influence on the anti-corruption environment development in government bodies. The authors of the paper have shown benefits of expediency transferring of some personnel department functions into digital format.

The article presents the program shell developed by the authors to estimate the knowledge of civil servants regarding anti-corruption issues. This development is a part of an information and analysis system, which is aimed not only at automating the analysis of data on knowledge control but it also includes both educational functions and possibilities for automation of the activity of the personnel divisions on the prevention of corruption offenses, formation of maps of corruption risks, observation, study and forecast of deviant corruption-related changes in the conduct of civil servants, assignment of testing, organization of training, etc. Due to the introduction of this program, the personnel divisions will obtain both systemic organization of awareness-raising measures (lectures, seminars) involving servants and the possibility to estimate their psychological condition and the general base of knowledge regarding prohibitions and restrictions in the civil service, practical and theoretical nuances of providing data about income, expenses, assets, liabilities, etc. The authors consider the issues of the introduction of the programs in the state authorities of both federal and regional levels. They point out the need to take into account the peculiarities of the targeted information system of the organization : the compatibility of the development being introduced with the current version of the operating system, as well as the security policy of the targeted system. The study presents the first results of the testing of the software product and includes an assessment of their main factors.

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