Enhanced ICAC Website Launched
2001-7-11
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has reached a high point in web development with the launch of its revamped corporate website which features enriched content and new functional tools to facilitate easy navigation and information searching.
In refurbishing the website, the Commission endeavoured to make available to the public more in-depth and diversified information about the ICAC, Commissioner Alan Lai Nin said at a launching reception today (Wednesday).
“The revamp is one of the many initiatives the ICAC takes to enhance transparency,” said Mr Lai, who will share with the public the achievements and difficulties in anti-corruption work in a new column Commissioner Online .
A new section Inside Investigations will feature a series of landmark ICAC cases over the years, of which some lesser known yet intriguing details will be revealed. The series can also serve as a record of Hong Kong's anti-corruption history as the archive builds up.
At the briefing, the Guest of Honor, Executive Council Member Mr Ti-liang Yang, for the first time, shared his recollection of the high-profile trial of former police officer Peter Godber in 1975.
“It was a landmark case. The message that went out to the public was that even expatriate officers were subject to the law and even high officials were subject to the law,” said Mr Yang, adding that the case heralded determined anti-corruption actions that followed.
Mr Yang's recollection of the Godber trial is contained in one of the two cases featured in the first issue of Inside Investigations
Also released is the Overseas Trust Bank case in 1986 which marked the first-ever joint ICAC and Police investigation since the ICAC was set up in 1974.
The website, launched in 1996 to enhance the Commission's communication with the public, has registered a 20-fold increase in hits over the past five years. Average monthly figures showed a growth from a mere 50,000 hits in 1997 to 1.24 million hits last month..
To meet with growing public demand for more information via the Internet, the Commission decided in the middle of last year to upgrade the website, Mr Lai noted.
With additional search function and re-arrangement of contents, the website is now easy to navigate and allows quick retrieval of information from the newly-established databank that contains essential information and press releases issued as early as Aug ust 1999.
An opening flash offers viewers entering the Homepage www.icac.org.hk a feel of vitality and action.
The new Tour of the Operations Department section offers Net surfers a virtual walk-through of the department's various facilities, which are otherwise closed to members of the general public.
Viewers can also subscribe to an E-mail Alert service that will prompt them when new events and information are uploaded.
In refurbishing the website, the Commission endeavoured to make available to the public more in-depth and diversified information about the ICAC, Commissioner Alan Lai Nin said at a launching reception today (Wednesday).
“The revamp is one of the many initiatives the ICAC takes to enhance transparency,” said Mr Lai, who will share with the public the achievements and difficulties in anti-corruption work in a new column Commissioner Online .
A new section Inside Investigations will feature a series of landmark ICAC cases over the years, of which some lesser known yet intriguing details will be revealed. The series can also serve as a record of Hong Kong's anti-corruption history as the archive builds up.
At the briefing, the Guest of Honor, Executive Council Member Mr Ti-liang Yang, for the first time, shared his recollection of the high-profile trial of former police officer Peter Godber in 1975.
“It was a landmark case. The message that went out to the public was that even expatriate officers were subject to the law and even high officials were subject to the law,” said Mr Yang, adding that the case heralded determined anti-corruption actions that followed.
Mr Yang's recollection of the Godber trial is contained in one of the two cases featured in the first issue of Inside Investigations
Also released is the Overseas Trust Bank case in 1986 which marked the first-ever joint ICAC and Police investigation since the ICAC was set up in 1974.
The website, launched in 1996 to enhance the Commission's communication with the public, has registered a 20-fold increase in hits over the past five years. Average monthly figures showed a growth from a mere 50,000 hits in 1997 to 1.24 million hits last month..
To meet with growing public demand for more information via the Internet, the Commission decided in the middle of last year to upgrade the website, Mr Lai noted.
With additional search function and re-arrangement of contents, the website is now easy to navigate and allows quick retrieval of information from the newly-established databank that contains essential information and press releases issued as early as Aug ust 1999.
An opening flash offers viewers entering the Homepage www.icac.org.hk a feel of vitality and action.
The new Tour of the Operations Department section offers Net surfers a virtual walk-through of the department's various facilities, which are otherwise closed to members of the general public.
Viewers can also subscribe to an E-mail Alert service that will prompt them when new events and information are uploaded.