Hey Martha - I would just echo some of the other comments, that recent transparencia movements fight corruption by disseminating information (like budgets) that used to be secret, including disseminating it via the internet. Saber es poder.
There is also a line of thought that saber is good economic policy - transparency reduces uncertainty and therefore risk for investors (foreign and citizens). So in fact some governments are choosing to fight corruption. (You can sorta work this out, when the government is releasing information on the web but most citizens don't have web access - the intended audience is foreigners who do have access.) Also, as more and more Latin American periodicals publish online editions, their anti-corruption work is available on the internet. I don't know how thorough a case study you are looking for, but here are some places that have brief citations: http://www.probidad.org/ http://www.celap.net/ http://www.cepet.org/ http://knightcenter.utexas.edu http://www.abraji.org.br http://ar.geocities.com/periodistamdq/pfalc.htm http://www.pcij.org/imag/latest/anti-corrupt2.html Please do share your bibliography and a link to your paper when you're done. Lisa Hinely [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512-836-8452 PO Box 4233, Austin TX 78765 Nonprofit Technology and Management -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 8/26/2005 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
