Harsh Vardhan Shukla, IIIT – Hyderabad , India. * harshvardhan.shukla@students.iiit.ac.in +9502341987
Keywords: e-government, corruption, case study, bhoomi, CARD, Sukaryan, CVC, E-seva.
Abstract:
This paper studies the potential and capability of e-Government to rule out corruption in governing system of India. It introduces e-government and corruption problems in the country and the discuss how e-government can be directed towards combating with corruption. Several examples have been discussed regarding use of e-government in the past to diminish corruption and their success rate. This paper also discuss about the challenges that is faced during ICT implementation in the system.
The authors conclude that e-governance can be a lethal weapon to fight corruption in developing countries and can help achieve societal harmony.
1. Introduction:
A. E-Government :
Technology has played a significant role in improving lifestyle of people by globalization of trade, improvement in health facilities, communication and many other advancements to make life easy. Thus, modern communication technologies or information and communications technologies (ICT) have been credited with not only improving efficiency or productivity in the business world but also with improving the standard of living for global citizens.
Recently many countries aroud the world have utilized ICT as an attempt to efficiently provide information and governmental services to the population. The use of ICT to provid information to citizen and to connect citizens to gvernment has been called e-governance or e-Govenrment.
Wikipedia definition for e-Government is : E-Government (short for electronic government , also known as e-gov,
Internet government, digital government, online government, or connected government) is digital interactions between a government and citizens (G2C), government and businesses/Commerce (G2B), government and
References: a. An Empirical Analysis of the relationship between e-government and corruption by Jamshed J Mistry and Abu Jalal. b. Role of E-Governance in Tackling Corruption and Achieving Societal Harmony: Indian Experience by Dr. R.D. Pathak. c. Transparency and Corruption: Does E-Government Help? by Subhash Bhatnagar. d. E-gov projects to reduce corruption and improve entrepreneurship by Manan Kakkar. e. E-governance to weed out corruption by Sreejiraj Eluvangal f. http://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_e-government_helpful_in_minimizing_corruption