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Tech for Transparency - An Invitation

Updated: Jul 19, 2023



As the confluence of conflict, corruption and climate catastrophe threatens our common future, the power of data science and digital technology must be harnessed to find the path to equity and sustainability.

In Pursuit of the Hidden Economy is the outcome of an extraordinary working group, bringing together veterans of the anti-corruption and transparency movements with seasoned data scientists and pioneers of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and other digital solutions.In this paper, Tech for Transparency explores what more can be done, and needs to be done, to harvest vast sums of evaded tax—nearly half a trillion US dollars every year.


And we recommend that nations earmark these harvested taxes for funding climate resilience initiatives and the full slate of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) that comprise the UN Agenda 2030.


We invite the digital science and anti-corruption communities—along with other interested stakeholders—to collaborate with us on solutions that will enable coordinated international approaches to policy that will:

  • Implement DLT in every port and logistics transit point to ensure accuracy and integrity of global trade data.

  • Harness the latest data science to strengthen and enhance national security.

  • Pursue transparency while safeguarding privacy.

  • Assure the quality of data in legal-entity and beneficial ownership registries from the point of input to the end of the data journey.

  • Address economic barriers to data access faced by the public and investigative journalists pursuing transparency and accountability.

  • Promote sharing and syncing of data across public and private platforms.

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