Ethical Governance and Society: Information Technology as a New Transparency Paradigm
| Author | Y. Pardhasaradhi |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019556120130315 |
| Published date | 01 July 2013 |
| Date | 01 July 2013 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
ETHICAL GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS A NEW
TRANSPARENCY PARADIGM
Y.
PARDHASARADHI
The paradigm shift in governance is intricately linked with
the spread
of
globalisation that swept through the 1990s and
consolidated its philosophy by the beginning
of
the new
millennium. The transformation, albeit, began with the New
Public
Management
(NPM)
movement
that
caught
the
imagination
of
the Western Europe, Canada,
the
United States,
Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. India,
too,
began to
follow the NPM norms, though on a slower note. Globalisation
brought in its wake the
ever
evolving information
and
communication technologies to the doorsteps
of
developing
world
countries
and
the
process
of
modernising
the
administrative systems in conformity with the global standards
began in earnest. However, conditions have not been that
conducive in the developing world, including India, to move
from administration to governance on account
of
parochialism,
·localisation, authoritarian systems
and
over all, political
culture.
INTRODUCTION
IN THE history
of
philosophy, ethics was not among the earliest issues
to
be examined in a systematic manner, rather it was among the latest. A
similar trend can be observed in the evolution
of
administrative thought
about ethical standards in governance and administration. In the evolutjon
of
administrative thought, attention gradually shifted from the purely
structural and functional aspects
of
organisation and management to
questions about leadership and motivation initially, and then to the proper
conduct on the grounds
of
certain ethical and normative standards. Ethical
questions
came
up
in
the aftermath
of
earlier
concerns about the
specification
of
legitimate
conduct
on the basis
of
some external
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