28-10-2024
The university is organizing an awareness lecture for its students on "National Integrity Standards and the Importance of Fighting Corruption."

To reinforce its preventive and awareness-raising role, Al al-Bayt University, in strategic partnership with the Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission and higher education institutions, is committed to educating and delivering awareness messages to employees and students, enhancing the ethical and community framework. 

The university's Faculty of Business organized an awareness lecture titled "National Integrity Standards and the Importance of Combating Corruption Within a Preventive Framework for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity." The goal is to apply national integrity standards and highlight the significant national role in fighting corruption and its risks as a community responsibility.

The university’s Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Dr. Omar Al-Otain, expressed pride in hosting awareness activities and networking with relevant national institutions, emphasizing that the commission is a safe haven for those with grievances, and that its role focuses on enforcing the law and combating corruption crimes.

Dr. Asma Al-Ajarmeh, head of the special investigations department, pointed out that law enforcement is a crucial aspect of the commission's work, mentioning that it involves monitoring and tracking corruption suspicions in all forms. She explained the commission's preventive role and the approval of the national integrity standards by the board, which should represent the ideal state of management in the public sector, including rule of law, accountability, transparency, justice, equality, and equal opportunities, along with good governance standards.

Al-Ajarmeh also provided a detailed explanation of compliance, reports, and complaints, differentiating between them, and outlined the roles of various departments within the commission, the types of witness protection available, and the duty of the compliance officer, as well as how to employ the law in the commission's operations.

In the second part, Ahmad Al-Malkawi, head of the Cybersecurity Unit at the commission, discussed the measures taken regarding information systems to counter cyber attacks and the need to raise cybersecurity awareness. He noted the increase in types and numbers of electronic and cyber crimes committed through technology due to the extensive use of electronic services.

Al-Malkawi elaborated on the role of cybersecurity and digitization in combating and reducing corruption, as well as the methods and procedures for protecting electronic devices and accounts through physical security, passwords, and privacy settings. He mentioned the existence of a digital support department and digital intelligence that collects electronic information about any corruption case, linking electronic evidence to the electronic crime scene through an electronic fingerprint, and discussed the electronic lab’s task of extracting electronic evidence and presenting it to the public prosecutor as digital proof of a digital crime.

At the end of the lecture, attended by the Dean of the Faculty of Business and several department heads, and moderated by Dr. Ali Al-Qura'​​n, an extensive dialogue took place between the speakers and attendees regarding the commission's tasks, responsibilities, and mechanisms for dealing with incoming complaints.