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Background Information and Links of Interest Corruption is a wide topic with many areas. Different technologies can play a role in different areas of anti-corruption activity. For example in countries where internet access is possible and growing the World Wide Web has been used by civil society groups to raise awareness of corruption. The link below contains many examples of civil society groups who focus of exposing corruption. http://www.pcij.org/imag/latest/anti-corrupt2.html In particular see the CVC website in India, which “names and shames” people involved in corruption investigations: http://www.cvc.nic.in/ There is risk present in the application of all technologies. The declaration of the 12th International Anti-Corruption Conference in November, 2006 highlighted the need for transparency and the potential danger of the trend for countries to control and limit the information on the internet. It should be noted that there was very little mention of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) applications for anti-corruption. http://www.12iacc.org/ ICT for anti-corruption day presented by the anti-corruption thematic group in April 2005, the link contains many interesting material: http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/seminarsdetails.cfm?ID=74 “Corruption, Transparency and a Role for ICT?” - An interesting article on corruption, although readers may wish to skip the historical discussion at the start of the paper: http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/002/ijie_002_25_sturges.pdf “Using ICT to Improve Governance & Transparency” – The development gateway page on ICT for anti-corruption, links to many articles: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/sdm/previewDocument.do~activeDocumentId=558636?activeDocumentId=558636&activeDocumentId=558636 An interesting study, if slightly lengthy, study of ICT and it role for anti-corruption, specific to the Czech Republic: http://www.policy.hu/cisar/project.html Improving governance using large IT systems, focused on the Indian experience and issues in larger countries. http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/PDFDOCS/Shah2006_big_it_systems.pdf Case Studies “Improving Public Sector Procurement in Latin America” – eight case studies http://topics.developmentgateway.org/businessenvironment/rc/ItemDetail.do~1043764?itemId=1043764 The online delivery of land records in Karnataka, India http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/reducingpoverty/case/96/fullcase/India%20Bhoomi%20Full%20Case.pdf A study of the benefits of ICT in anti-corruption programs includes some short but interesting case studies. http://www.transparency.org/content/download/4345/26442/file/04_E-government_(Bhatnagar).pdf A short study of financial management systems, their role in anti-corruption and limits thereof. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEGOVERNMENT/Resources/702478-1129947625190/billTransprencyandIFMS.doc A study on the topic of online information disclosure http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTEGOVERNMENT/Resources/702478-1129947625190/panzardipresentation.doc A case study on tendering for infrastructure in Indonesia http://www.egov4dev.org/indonesiatender.htm |
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