Internet against government corruption互聯網反政府腐敗

Can the internet prevent government corruption?互聯網可以防止政府的腐敗？ You're probably never going to meet an entirely honest politician, but according to a statistical study by US researchers of 170 countries the internet could provide the tools necessary to reduce corruption significantly.你可能永遠不會達到完全誠實的政治家，但據一項統計，美國的研究人員對170個國家的互聯網可提供必要的工具，大大減少腐敗。

Martha García-Murillo of the School of Information Studies, at Syracuse University, New York, modeled political, economic and technological factors.瑪莎加西亞，穆里略的信息研究學院，在錫拉丘茲大學，紐約，模仿政治，經濟和技術因素。 She found that “red tape”, good governance and freedom of the press all had a greater effect on whether or not there was apparent corruption within a particular government.她發現，“繁文縟節”，善治和新聞自由，都有了更大的效果就是否存在明顯的腐敗現象在一個特定的政府。

According to García-Murillo:據加西亞，穆里略：

Corruption is a problem that needs to be controlled, if not completely eliminated. 腐敗是一個問題 ， 需要加以控制，如果不是完全消除。 Because of the multiple causes of corruption, it is advisable that governments use the internet as one of the many tools available to them to fight corruption. 由於多種原因腐敗，建議各國政府利用互聯網作為一個提供的多種工具提供給它們打擊腐敗。

Conversely, the internet gives power to the people allowing activists and independent lobbyists to hook up and campaign more easily, it allows information regarding dodgy deals and instances of corruption to reach the public domain much more readily, and can provide an open access route to government.相反，互聯網賦予的權力，讓人民群眾積極分子和獨立說客和競選掛鉤更容易，它允許資料躲閃交易和腐敗的情況下，公共領域達到更方便了，而且可以提供一個開放的政府通道。

There are three ways in which the internet can directly reduce corruption, according to García-Murillo.有三種方式可以在網上直接減少腐敗現象，根據加西亞，穆里略。 Through electronic government initiatives, processes and procedures can be implemented to improve the manner in which state officials interact with the private sector and the public at large.通過電子政府的措施，過程和程序可以實現改善的方式，州政府官員互動，私營部門和廣大公眾。 These automated or semi-automated processes can limit the opportunities that government employees have to extort money.這些自動化或半自動化的進程可以限制的機會，政府僱員要勒索錢財。

Secondly, electronic government initiatives can also support the democratic process by allowing people to know more about their government representatives and, in the long term, by facilitating participation in elections.其次，電子政府的工作也能夠支持民主進程，讓人們更多地了解他們的政府代表，並在長遠來說，通過促進參與選舉。

These first two components of reducing corruption rely to some extent on the corruption being localized within government rather than being a government-wide issue.其中前兩個部分的依賴減少腐敗在一定程度上的腐敗現象進行本地化政府內部，而不是一個政府性的問題。 If the latter problem exists, then one would suspect that there are much deeper issues to address within a particular society than whether or not “voters” have the opportunity to send email to their government representatives.如果是後者問題的存在，那麼人們會懷疑有更深刻的問題需要解決，在特定的社會比與否“選民”有機會向他們發送電子郵件政府代表。

However, García-Murillo's third point regarding how the internet might reduce government corruption emerges from the fact that the internet has become just as important, if not more so, than the traditional media, the press, radio, and TV.然而，加西亞，穆里略的第三點，關於如何在互聯網可能減少政府的腐敗出現一個事實，互聯網已成為同樣重要，甚至更為重要，比傳統媒體，報刊，廣播，電視。 Politicians may feel more restrained from engaging in corrupt activities if their every move is tweeted or blogged instantaneously.政治家們可能會感到更加克制的從事腐敗活動，如果他們的一舉一動都啾啾或博客瞬間。 And, once a mal-fact about them is out there, it will remain permanently visible.而且，一旦發作，其實對他們是在那裡，將永遠保持可見。 On the internet no one can ever forgive and forget.互聯網上的任何人都不能原諒和忘記。

Martha García-Murillo (2010). 瑪莎加西亞，穆里略（2010年）。 The effect of internet access on government corruption Electronic Government, An International Journal, 7 (1), 22-40 影響互聯網接入政府部門的腐敗電子政府，國際學術刊物上7（1），22-40