Use of State Information Systems in Anti-Corruption Activities of Executive Authorities

Abstract

The article reveals the most relevant direction of the state anti-corruption policy defined by the national anti-corruption plan, which consists in the use of digital and information tools that are united within the framework of state information systems. The first part of the article substantiates the use of these digital tools due to the low efficiency of preventing modern forms of corruption offences using traditional methods of anti-corruption activities. As part of the digital direction of Russia’s modern anti-corruption policy, the Ministry of Labour is charged with the collection of effective regional and federal practices in the use of information systems. The best practices selected by the Ministry were also used in the creation of the state anti-corruption information system Poseidon, which is currently the basic system for all executive authorities. The final part of the article concludes with a study of the organization of the authorities’ anti-corruption work using digital tools.