Social media and Anti-Corruption

Many nations are utilizing internet communication tools in attempt to increase government transperency and decreasing corruption and in some cases it appears to be successful.

Transparency is an element of primary approaches in which governments have begun to employ to promote openness and reduce corruption. By implementing government transparency, citizens and employees can trust the government and be informed of their ideas and communications with little to be hidden. This creates trustworthy relationships to be maintained between governments and citezins. Transparency ultimately serves to keep a government honest and citezins informed. There are generally four channels in which governments transparency Occurs through: Proactive dissemination by the government, release of requested materials by the government, public meetings and Leaks from whistle blowers
Internet communication tools can reduce corruption in many ways, particularly by promoting good governance, enhancing relationships between government employees and citezins, and by monitoring and controlling behaviours of government employees.