E-Governance as an Anti Corruption Tool: Korean Cases

Corruption is an impediment for development and good governance. It is more than true especially in the least developed countries(LDC), and emerging and development economies (EDE). Academics have given strong attention on corruption since last couple of decades. In this modern information age Information and Communication Technology (ICT) becomes almost compulsory in daily life. E-governance is the by-product of ICT. Effort of this study is to see e-governance as an anti corruption tool. Cases of Republic of Korea i.e., the OPEN system and the GePS will be analyzed as example. This article will identify the successful actors and factors of Republic of Korea emphasizing on stakeholder mapping through ‘DOCTORS’ and explain how e-governance help to curb corruption.