What is the meaning and significance of integrity in the 21st century? Pondering on how I could explain the idea of integrity to my 7-year-old nephew, I considered stories about the value of ‘keeping one’s word and fulfilling personal promises’. However, these virtues only partially capture the meaning of integrity; there’s more to integrity than consistency between words and actions. Under a different perspective, integrity is seen as active commitment to a set of principles and values[1]. In discussing this idea with my nephew, I encouraged him ‘to do the right thing, even when nobody was watching’.