- Political Donations and Corruption A Study by Artur Victoria By:-Artur Victoria
In one case Spanish anti corruption public prosecutors began the investigation last March into the allegedly fraudulent sale of the Spanish telephone installation company Sintel to the Cuban entrepreneur Jorge Mas Canosa The action was taken after unions alleged the former management of the company had plundered millions of pesetas from the sale of the company
- Approach to Knowledge and Learning Integrity A Study by Artur Victoria By:-Artur Victoria
The resources required to deliver high levels of public integrity are huge though, even if it were possible; arguably greater than the resources one could imagine being available
This is due to the high costs of achieving:
• Strategic doneness (prioritization/sequencing)
• Local legitimacy (polices come with ideological baggage)
• High quality of knowledge to transfer (appropriateness to context)
• Local commitment or buy in
All these play a significant role in the application of pro integrity reforms and are hard to overcome when applying a top down, internationally driven approach to public integrity reform, such as has characterized much policy to date
- Privatizing A Way to Make Illicit Profits With Bribery and Corruption A Study by Artur Victoria By:-Artur Victoria
For more than a year it has been France s turn to fall under the microscope of the international media over bribery and corruption allegations, as it had been Britain turn in the mid 1990s over sleaze in the Conservative Government Recent events in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Cyprus, Malta, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Sweden and Finland
- The Merits of a Domestic Appliance Scrappage Scheme By:-Elmo Populous
In a recent move to help the environment, The British Retail Consortium has put in a request to the Government to introduce a domestic appliance scrappage scheme akin to the car industry scrappage programme that already exists in Britain The suggestion is that the government should waive the 15 per cent VAT on white goods such as fridges and washing machines when customers trade up
- Building an Information System A Study by Artur Victoria By:-Artur Victoria
An information system (IS) can be defined as a set of inter related components working together to collect, retrieve, process, store and distribute information in order to facilitate the planning, control, coordination, analysis and decision making in companies and other organizations
The most common concepts of an information system are those in which:
• Computer networks are systems of components of information processing;
• The use of computer networks by firms are, in fact, interconnected information systems;
• Developing ways of using computer networks in business includes the design of the basic components of information systems;
• The administration of information technology emphasizes the quality and value for business and security of information systems in an organization
- Security and Information A Study by Artur Victoria By:-Artur Victoria
With the argument that society needs to have certain products or services, the government creates a public that is structured to act in a particular industry, such as education, health, safety and welfare
IT presents it as the basic components of data processing and / or information and communication through integrated electronic equipment for that
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