A new article by Rufat Efendiyev, Founder and Director of the International Platform for Sport Ethics & Integrity (IPSEI), has been published by Open Access Government, exploring the need for a more connected architecture for sport integrity.

The article, “Sport integrity needs a common architecture: Connecting clean, fair and safe sport through Good Governance,” argues that while sport has developed increasingly sophisticated systems to address doping, competition manipulation, safeguarding, corruption and other integrity risks, these areas often continue to operate within separate institutional and regulatory frameworks.

It proposes a simple way of understanding how the principal integrity domains connect:

Clean Sport protects performance.
Fair Sport protects competition.
Safe Sport protects people.
Good Governance enables the system to protect all three.

Rather than treating Good Governance as another separate pillar, the article positions it as the cross-cutting foundation that supports transparency, accountability, independence, procedural fairness and effective cooperation across the sport integrity system.

The central message is clear: the next generation of sport integrity should move beyond managing individual threats in isolation and towards understanding integrity as an interconnected system built around trust.

Clean. Fair. Safe. Governed. Trusted.

Read the full article in Open Access Government:

Sport integrity needs a common architecture: Connecting clean, fair and safe sport through Good Governance