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E‐transparency and government budgetary corruption: A social marketing and transformation case from Nigeria
Author(s) -
Olarewaju Tolu,
Rufai Ibrahim,
Gallage Samanthika
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the electronic journal of information systems in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1681-4835
DOI - 10.1002/isd2.12167
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , accountability , language change , transformative learning , government (linguistics) , public relations , business , information and communications technology , transformational leadership , openness to experience , social media , political science , sociology , psychology , art , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , literature , law , social psychology
This article shows how Information and Communication Technology (ICT), incorporating social media, can lead to accountability and transparency in a government's budget. Specifically, it examined how a Non‐Governmental Organization (NGO) used ICT to foster citizenship engagement in the Nigerian government budgetary process. The article, using abductive reasoning, presents four citizen empowerment stages and four social marketing transition stages through which government budget transparency can be improved and corruption reduced. A model was also inferred that can help lessen the exclusivity around the government budget to encourage dialog and openness around the government budget in similar contexts. Furthermore, this article shows that the social transformative role for NGOs using ICT to increase government budget transparency and reduce corruption is a process that happens over time.