Date Published:
April 27 2010
Date Added:
6/19/2012
Language:
English
Sector:
Information and communications
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Using ICTs to Create a Culture of Transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societies
This report, produced by a team of professors from the University of Maryland - College Park in April 2010, explores the potential impacts of information and ICTs – especially e-government and social media – on cultural attitudes about transparency.
Additional Information:
In recent years, many governments have worked to increase openness and transparency in their actions. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are seen by many as a cost-effective and convenient means to promote openness and transparency and to reduce corruption. E-government, in particular, has been used in many prominent, comprehensive transparency efforts in a number of nations. While some of these individual efforts have received considerable attention, the issue of whether these ICT-enabled efforts have the potential to create a substantive social change in attitudes toward transparency has not been widely considered. This paper explores the potential impacts of information and ICTs – especially e-government and social media – on cultural attitudes about transparency.
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