"[The NYPD] will have to improve auditing to ensure that stops are valid rather than just meeting quota," Azmy said.
The initial results indicate that COPAS is a valid and reliable instrument and may, in the future, become widely used by researchers and healthcare workers as an instrument to audit and improved healthcare services coordination.
He said the group was planning to improve the clinic's ability to audit the information it received from doctors, because the clinic must now rely on doctors' self-reporting to find potential conflicts.
The Heartbleed bug put the whole software industry on heightened alert, and Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many others already formed a foundation earlier this year that aimed to work with popular open-source projects to audit and improve their security.
The letter also addresses the reports regarding factory conditions at Pegatron's facilities; Williams says that problems being identified doesn't condemn Apple's practices, but is rather part of their ongoing attempt to audit and improve supplier facility conditions.
Fig. 4 Linkages between theoretical concepts and improved ethics audit (compiled by the author).
Andrew Lewman, executive director of the TOR project, told me "Free and open source software at least gives someone the ability to review, improve, and audit the code on which the app is based".
Tougher regulation of auditors through the new accounting oversight board under the chairmanship of William McDonough, a former head of the New York Fed, should help to improve auditing.
It's been a tough environment, and we have trebled staff in Afghanistan to improve accountability and audit our partners because of concerns about corruption". But the subject that is probably closest to Shah's personal interests is food security.
Two initiatives emerged from the European Commission this week, one to improve the audit profession, the other to tax financial transactions.
