ROLE OF E-GOVERNMENT AND OPEN DATA TO ENHANCE TRANSPARENCY IN ASEAN REGION: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS

Abstract

E-government involves the use of latest skills by the government while providing the services and other information management systems to its citizens. Open data refers to the openness of all the data related to government to its citizens so that the government becomes more and more transparent and to decrease negative activities. Transparency refers to the clear and clean image of a government towards its people, which increases the trust of people on their government. The motive of this study is to analyze the impact of e-government adoption and open government data on transparency in ASEAN countries. Two control variables i.e. literacy rate and corruption have also been used in the study. The past literature has also been discussed in literature review section of this study. In order to conduct research, data about the concerned variables of the study has been collected from ASEAN countries consisting of 29 years. After applying several tests and approaches for research purpose, the two major hypotheses of this study are accepted along with the impact of a control variable, corruption. However, the impact of other control variable i.e. literacy rate has been rejected. There are various theoretical, practical and policy making benefits that will increase the transparency.