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The next five positions were bagged by Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab.

So says the annual report from Capgemini conducted on behalf of the European Commission, which placed Ireland fourth in Europe in terms of online sophistication of e-government services with a score of 84 percent. This score tied with the UK but was five points behind the leader, Sweden. Last year Ireland had a score of 86 percent, making it joint second with Denmark, and in 2001 Ireland topped the list with 68 percent.

Puca, a mobile messaging and data services provider, commissioned research company Amarach Consulting to undertake the survey of Ireland's mobile phone users, almost half of which said they would be interested in communicating with the government and public sector departments using their mobile phones.

Commissioned by Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, this new report outlines the way new technologies and social change will transform travel by 2020. The study challenges the industry to overcome the uncertainty and stress of modern-day travel through the application of new technologies and innovations.

86 per cent of the citizens of Norway think that their country is close to being a perfect country to live in. We are also satisfied with public services. The highest level of satisfaction is enjoyed by, among others, the public library, the state owned vine and liquor store operator Vinmonopolet and the colleges of higher learning. At the lower end of the satisfaction scale are institutions like the municipal planning and building office, the Norwegian railway NSB and the Norwegian Welfare and Labour Administration NAV. These are conclusions from the nationwide Citizen Survey which measures how satisfied Norwegian citizens are with municipal, regional and government services.

Member States are gradually moving more public services on to the web, but with only 40% of these services fully transactional, there is some way to go before Europe has a high level of genuine on-line functionality. The situation of the new Member States is very satisfactory, corresponding, on average, to where the EU-15 were two years ago. Estonia is already ahead of all but the leading established Member States.

Announcing the findings of a survey conducted by the Department of Statistics (DoS), ICT Minister Bassem Roussan and DoS Director General Ghazi Shbaikat, noted that 73 per cent of those connected use the Internet for personal purposes, whereas 17 per cent are connected to the World wide Web for reasons related to their work.

Schweden und Österreich sind Europas "Musterschüler" beim E-Goverment. In beiden Ländern sind mehr als 80 Prozent der öffentlichen Serviceleistungen online durchführbar. Bei den vollständig elektronisch abwickelbaren Diensten sind Schweden und Österreich sogar die einzigen Länder, die die 70 Prozent-Schwelle durchbrechen konnten. Dies sind die Ergebnisse der E-Government-Studie des IT-Dienstleisters Capgemini, die gestern, Dienstagabend, auf einer Pressekonferenz in Wien präsentiert wurden. "War Österreich 2002 noch auf Platz elf, sind wir nun unter die Top-Drei Europas vorgerückt", freute sich Christian Rupp, Exekutivsekretär E-Government des Bundes. Erste Vorergebnisse der Studie waren bereits gestern von der EU-Kommission in Brüssel bekannt gegeben worden. pte berichtete.

But we can't afford to rest on our laurels. According to an Accenture spokesperson, there is still work to be done to meet citizens’ growing expectations.

In its sixth annual report to be released Wednesday and seen by the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, Accenture found that electronic government services don't take the place of just plain government services.

A survey of the 10 new Central and Eastern European member states and candidate country Turkey, released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) this week, found that a lack of government commitment on e-government implementation, combined with a dearth of broadband and fixed-line telephone networks was slowing progress in the region.

The UK has slipped down a rung in e-government league tables compiled by Accenture, which blames the slide on the lack of depth in the public services currently online.

This year the UK stands at joint tenth in the annual rankings, down one place from last year.

Accenture's sixth annual global e-Government survey shows that Ireland came in at 14th place along with five other nations. This places the country in the "follower" category in terms of overall e-government service maturity. In 2004, the Republic was ranked 11th in the firm's report.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ranks top on the highest net perception of service improvement over the past two years globally and ranks third in terms of the highest level of frequency in e-government usage, with 32.6% more Saudi citizens using these services more often, the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) 2016 Digital Government Survey showed. The survey, which was based on 13,570 individual responses across 21 countries and 26 digital government services, benchmarks citizen perspectives on their use of digital channels for government services.

According to the forum’s annual Global Information Technology Report released Wednesday, Korea was the most active country in the world in terms of private firms’ Internet usage, and second best in the high-speed Internet penetration rate. On the contrary, it was lowly ranked in the administrative process for starting new businesses (89th), efficiency of taxation (71st) and accessibility to venture capital (68th).