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The complexity and transnational nature of pharmaceutical supply chains demand sophisticated collaborations to ensure the safe distribution of vaccines – not just a safeguarding database.

District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) can help all countries – at all income levels – to tackle corruption through effective, transparent use of data.

Corruption risk management has not been the ‘cure-all’ for corruption that many hoped for. However, combined with integrity management approaches, it can have enormous benefits for the aid sector.

Interest in researching corruption has grown recently, expanding to new perspectives on cross-border corruption, more refined approaches to measurement, and context-tailored anti-corruption tools.

Digital payments in Vietnam’s forest sector need to be the sole means of benefit distribution if they are to significantly reduce opportunities for corruption.

International organisations should examine blockchain’s effectiveness against the challenges identified. Effectiveness depends on technical capacity, trust, and a political commitment to reduce corruption.

Techno-optimism has grown in the past 20 years, and technology will certainly be used to solve even more corruption issues over the coming 20. However, it needs to be used with care and consideration to avoid unintended consequences.

Emerging efforts to boost the effectiveness of asset recovery include the use of AI, the imposition of asset-freezing sanction regimes, and urgent freezing requests, among others.

With recent and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, it’s time to check in on AI’s headway – and the hype – and revisit how the technology can be used in anti-corruption work.

We can learn from AI’s successes in protecting public money and predicting corruption. But we must also examine its challenges. With human oversight and intervention, we can unlock AI’s potential in anti-corruption work.