Co-Founder and Director of Policy
The Tiri Network
London
UK
Jeremy Pope will be presenting a keynote on International ethics for Records Managers on Monday.
I’m Jeremy Pope, one of the founders of the international non-governmental organisation Transparency International, and a long-time campaigner for accountability and access to information. I have worked in about 70 countries and have more than a few tales to tell.
While you are in my home town I’d like to spend a little time with you, sharing views about the wider importance of your work; the place of the recordkeeper in the national integrity system in your country; the need to elevate your status within the governmental structures and the absolute need to protect the profession from those who would undermine it.
When I was starting up Transparency International, I developed a concept we named the National Integrity System. This is a way that analyses how the various institutions and practices of a country - both governmental and in the wider society – combine into a single system endeavouring to maintain a society that has tolerable levels of honesty. It’s an approach that development agencies like the World Bank have adopted in the global quest of better governance.
I’d like to share with you the fruit of my work in a variety of countries around the world. I will show how systems of ‘horizontal accountability’ function, and the value of your own most important role within them.
I believe you are even more important than some of you realise and it is my hope that the gentle winds of Wellington may be able to blow a little fresh air into your thinking.
Wellington, after all, has been described as being the ‘world capital of the verb’ - the place where activity rules.
