A Proposal for Corruption Reduction in Developing Countries Based on E-government

Corruption is one of the main challenges in governments. According to many international reports, corruption in developing countries is more than developed countries. On the other hand, one of the advantages of e-government is accountability and transparency. Therefore e-government can be introduced as a solution to reduce corruption in government activities. This paper studied the effect of e-government on transparency. For this purpose, firstly, correlation between e-government and transparency scores of 180 countries was measured. Then, these countries were categorized into different clusters according to their scores. Along with this study the e-government strategic plans of 6 developed countries including US, UK, Canada, Singapore, Denmark and New Zealand were reviewed and common features in their e-government strategic plans were identified and finally, some recommendations were proposed in order to improve e-government in developing countries.