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This year, the CSI-Nihilent Best e-Governed State Award has been clinched by Gujarat for the implementation and development of indigenously developed practices and software in the area of e-governance that benefit the common citizen. The Department of Health & Family Welfare, Gujarat and Department of Electricity, Lakshadweep were declared joint winners of the Best e-Governed Department Award, a new category introduced this year to recognise government departments that have shown great promise in delivering best results of e-governance.

While disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the State Information Technology Department said that the Haryana Government had formulated its e-governance roadmap and capacity building roadmap. In implementation of the core infrastructure project of State Wide Area Network (SWAN), Haryana has fallen under the category of level one states in the country, he added.

This time, a study conducted for CyberMedia’s fortnightly publication Dataquest has placed Himachal at the second spot, just behind Tamil Nadu, in terms of most e-governed states in India for 2008-09. Delhi, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh have secured 3rd, 4th and 5th positions, respectively. Himachal has jumped five places from its previous position as per the survey, but ironically the same kind of resurgence is not visible in IT-enabled business in the state.

Goa topped the 2006 list

Delhi tops in nine of the 14 parameters

Delhi tops the list of “Best e-governed States of 2007.”

In a survey conducted by a private group, Goa has moved down to the second spot, followed by Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

The report noted that Denmark’s level of network readiness had to do with an excellent regulatory environment, in addition to clear government leadership and vision in leveraging ICT for growth and promoting ICT penetration and usage.

Internet users in the Mena region comprise 5.2 per cent of the world's users and numbered 85.5 million in 2008, compared to 16 million in 2003, said the report. Their share of the world's total users rose from two per cent to 5.2 per cent over the same period.

The annual report cited the fact that Ireland is below average in terms of broadband take-up, ranking 20th out of the EU countries with only 10.5pc of the population accessing broadband compared with an EU average of 15.7pc.

While Ireland hasn't fallen down the e-readiness ranking compiled by the Economist's business intelligence unit, it hasn't made any progress up the charts either, remaining at 21st position for the second year in a row.

The country did manage a marginal increase in its score from 7.86 out of 10 last year to 8.03. Top of the league is the US with a score of 8.95.

A report prepared by the UN shows that of the top ten users of e-Government in the continent, the only East African nation that appears is Kenya, occupying the seventh position. Seychelles, Mauritius and Mauritius lead the continent's users.

Out of the 190 countries ranked by UN in terms of e-Government usage, no East African country appears in the top 100. Kenya is ranked 119, Tanzania 138, Rwanda 139, and Uganda 143 while Burundi sits in a distant 173 position.

“Despite a number of countries increasing its span on IT, Qatar is doing well and excel better,” said Dr Soumitra Dutta (pictured), professor of top global business school INSEAD and the man behind Web 2.0 which revolutionises social networking on the Internet.

Dänen, Schweden und Schweizer wissen die Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken (IKT) am besten einzusetzen. Das geht aus dem am Mittwoch veröffentlichten "Global Information Technology Report 2007" des Weltwirtschaftsforums hervor.

This emerged in the latest report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for 2012.

The annual report titled "Measuring the Information Society 2012", rank the Republic of Korea as the world's most advanced ICT economy, followed by Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland.

South Korea has topped a global list ranking countries on their level of ICT access, use and skills, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

In its report released Thursday, the United Nations agency said this is the third time in a row that South Korea has come in first in the ICT Development Index (IDI). The Asian state has the highest percentage of households connected to the Internet at 67 percent, while both mobile broadband and fixed broadband penetration rates were at 84 percent to propel it to the top, it noted.

The Kingdom ranked 84th globally in the 2010 IPB.

The IPB, which is part of the "Measuring the Information Society" report released this week by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), combined the average cost of the "sub-baskets" of fixed-telephone, mobile-cellular and fixed-broadband Internet services in 161 countries.

The 2012 UN Global E-Government Survey, which covered 190 countries, indicated that the Kingdom ranked 14th among West Asian countries, while it was eighth among Arabs states.

At the Arab level, the UAE ranked first in terms of e-government readiness, followed by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon and Jordan, according to the report posted on the UN Public Administration Programme website.

"According to the latest ranking of the United Nations, Kazakhstan ranked second on 'e-participation index' among 192 countries (31st in 2005)," the statement reads.