ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses corruption as a form of unethical behaviour by public servants. Based on research linking corruption to transparency and accountability, the paper presents two case studies that describe how city officials in Tbilisi, Georgia and Lviv, Ukraine have taken steps to reduce corruption in government budgeting and procurement specifically through the implementation of automated systems aimed at increasing open access to information used to make financial decisions at the municipal level. The expected result, which cannot be measured so soon after implementation, is that increasing open access to information will enable citizens to hold public officials more accountable for their financial decisions, thus reducing the opportunity to engage in corruption.
