ICT: a tool to reduce corruption in Bangladesh

Abstract

Nowadays corruption in Bangladesh has become a social affliction. The baleful paw of corruption has been spread each and every spheres of people's life in Bangladesh. It is unfortunate for all Bangladeshis' that Bangladesh has ranked as the worlds' most corrupted country for five sequent years (2001-2005) according to the report of Transparency International (TI). It is an arduous task thing to remove man to man corruption and political corruption within a short time. But it can be facile to reduce corruption in government sectors by a well-planned strategy of e-governance. This paper explains corruption and its bad impact, necessity of applying e-governance, conquest through using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for reducing corruption and some additional works of e-governance.