IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

The Government of Kazakhstan pays special attention to the development of e-Government. The state infrastructure of the e-Government was built in the country over a short period of time. The information resources and systems of the state bodies were integrated into a single complex. Presently, the number of certificates issued by the e-Government portal makes 10 million.

According to the latest rankings of the UN, Kazakhstan jointly with Singapore took the second place in the world in terms of the e-participation among 190 participating countries, Pm. kz site informed.

Kazakhstan ranked 31st in terms of these rankings in 2005. Our country also climbed up from the 65th place to the 38thone in 2005 in terms of development of electronic government.

The World Bank has approved 55.1 million U.S. dollars to help Kenya scale up transformative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) applications.

The Bank said on Monday that Kenya will use the funds to scale up digital inclusion, content development, and e-government and shared services.

Dubbed "Mobilising public services in Africa" the Informa Telecoms & Media's White Paper, available at the ongoing Africa Com event in Cape Town, ranks Kenya after South Africa and ahead of Egypt as an African country most ready to embrace mobile government services.

Joint authors of the Informa's report Nick Jotischky and Sheridan Nye however note that until now mobile government implementations have been far slower to take off in Southa Africa than in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.

Globally, Korea emerged at the top of the rankings for the second year running ahead of the US and Canada.

In Africa, Mauritius and the Seychelles were the front-runners with Kenya in the third place.

The survey by the research firm CPS international, sponsored by the Pan African Education Trust, found East African universities to be increasingly embracing ICT in teaching and learning and comparing favourably with international universities in the use of technology.

“GCC states have upgraded their performance in the field of information technology which became one of their key national industries,” WEF pointed out in its report.

Saudi Arabia obtained 29th position globally in political and regulatory environment and 25th in business and innovation, according to the forum’s report data.

"The United Nations E-Government Survey 2012: E-Government for the People" pointed to many major achievements made by the Saudi government in the past 2 years--from creating more options for mobile access to the high-functionality of the Saudi National portal. For all of these advancements, the Kingdom is now among top-performers in e-government as an "emerging eGovernment leader".

Released this week, the survey scores all 193 United Nations member states every two years. It scored governments on their overall e-government efforts, as well as specific analysis of: online public service delivery; e-participation; collaborative governance; mobile delivery; digital inclusion; and open government data.

The Busan Metropolitan Government announced on the 4th that it ranked 12th out of 76 major cities around the world in the 11th evaluation of the World Intelligent Center Index (SCI) released by British consulting agency Z/YEN. The Global Smart Center Index has been published in the first and second half of every year since July 2020 by Ziyen, a global consulting firm in London. The evaluation uses 135 smart-related statistical indicators and surveys of experts around the world.

Yonsei University-Cambridge announced 'SMART CITIES INDEX REPORT 2022'... Seoul, Busan praised for Smartization

Seoul was selected leading Smart City for its intelligence and service innovations. Incheon and Busan also received outstanding evaluations for their smart city governance and infrastructure services.

Beating the United States, China and Japan, South Korea had the highest levels of “access, usage and skills.” Scandinavian countries follow closely behind South Korea; with Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and Finland trailing the advanced Asian economy.

CAIT's Bashayer Al-Awwad told KUNA on sideline of a conference on human development that the event, sponsored by the agency, Kuwait's Civil Service Commission (CSC), and Microsoft, would focus on the role of IT in shaping skills of leaders and managers in government institutions.

The index provides a quantitative appraisal of the use of e-government as a tool in the delivery of services to the public at large. It is a composite index based on website assessment, telecommunications infrastructure and human resources.

The index provides a quantitative appraisal of the use of e-government as a tool in the delivery of services to the public at large. It is a composite index based on website assessment, telecommunications infrastructure and human resources.

It is customary to assess aspects of the performance of a country using composite indices such as the Ease of Doing Business Index or the Network Readiness Index. For government services, the indicator of choice is the e-Government Development Index (EGDI), published every two years by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Partly because of the complexity of the methodology, whereby the weights for different elements change with every iteration, and partly because some governments have begun to game the system, the rankings fluctuate significantly. Nepal, which ranked 150th in 2008, fell as far back as to the 165th spot by 2014. It came in at 117th in the most recent ranking of 2018. Bangladesh’s worst performance was in 2012 (150th). Its best performance was in the most recent ranking (115th).

Apart from Luckow, Varanasi and Agra also managed to secure a place in the top 10 Smart Cities in India in February

Moving closer towards its aim of becoming one of the cleanest cities in the country, Lucknow has managed to secure the 8th rank in the Smart City Ranking in India in February. Notably, the Union Ministry of Urban Development announces these rankings every month, on the basis of the projects that are currently running or completed under the ambit of Smart City Mission. With a remarkable progression from last month's ranking when Lucknow stood at the 16th spot, the Capital city jumped 8 places to bag a rank in the top 10 Smart Cities of India, this month.

Maine was rated the third best state for eGovernment in the United States, according to the eighth annual survey of eGovernment effectiveness conducted by Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. The study praised Maine’s site for its easy navigation, thoughtful prioritization of information and customizability.

It was a far cry from the lofty positions it held in previous years, according to Providence, Rhode Island-based Brown University's fourth annual e-government survey released last week.

He said although Malaysia's improved ranking from 25th in 2007 to 11th last year was good, countries like the Dominican Republic and Brazil had done better, coming in 9th and 10th respectively.