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Leveraging Blockchain Applications for Transparent Governance: An Anti-Corruption Framework for Strengthening United Nations SDG 16 in Democratic Societies

Author(s) Satadip Banerjee
Country India
Abstract Corruption is a dominant obstacle to institutional efficiency, public accountability and sustainable democratic development. Many public sector systems still suffer from information opacity, administrative discretion and insufficient monitoring measures even after many reforms of governance have been adopted. In this context, blockchain technology has emerged as a promising digital innovation that could enhance transparency and promote institutional integrity. This paper discusses the role of blockchain in promoting transparent governance and its potential as an anti-corruption tool to advance the objectives of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16). The article explores the relationship between blockchain transparency and the reduction of corruption in the context of various current governance, public administration, and distributed ledger technology methods. Based on the identified governance issues and technology affordances, a conceptual anti-corruption framework is developed to demonstrate how blockchain could enable accountable decision making, secure storage of records, transaction traceability, and public scrutiny. The proposed architecture shows how governance tools based on blockchain can help reduce corruption risks and at the same time build stronger and more trustworthy institutions. The paper also discusses practical constraints, implementation issues and future prospects for the integration of blockchain into democratic government systems. The results show that blockchain can be useful for transparency and can have an important role in the promotion of SDG 16 if supported by appropriate regulatory and institutional arrangements.
Keywords Blockchain, Transparent Governance, Anti-Corruption, Accountability, SDG 16
Published In Volume 17, Issue 6, June 2026
Published On 2026-06-28
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