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The European Commission’s Benchmarking report on eGovernment services provided by Member States has been published. The report captures the results of the 8th measurement of eServices across Europe. The benchmark was established in 2001 and has become a cornerstone in the eGovernment measurement landscape and a prolific policy-informing tool at both a European and Member State level.

This was announced by Minister Austin Gatt together with MITA Chairman Claudio Grech.

Malta has placed first overall, together with Portugal, in an EU-wide benchmarking exercise of e-government services, going up one position since the exercise was last carried out.

The benchmarking exercise, which was commissioned by the European Commission, evaluated e-government services in all 27 EU member states, as well as Croatia, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland (EU27+).

The last measurement, which ranked Malta in second place, was made in September 2007.

An annual survey on information communication technology availability and usage showed that more than 98 per cent of enterprises that employ 10 or more full-time equivalents had access to a broadband connection.

The survey, carried out during the first quarter this year, shows that 96 per cent of 10+ enterprises and 65 per cent of micro-enterprises made use of a computer during the period under review.

Malta has placed first in an EU benchmarking exercise of e-government services.

The survey ranked services according to a number of criteria in an exercise carried out every two years. Malta was second in the last survey.

The result was greeted with satisfaction this afternoon by IT Minister Austin Gatt, who said the results were particularly welcome as the concept of e-government was only launched nine years ago.

Further investment in government systems, the launch of a new e-health system as well as the creation of new identity cards with a database chip in them are three of the projects expected to be completed within the coming months.

This was announced by Austin Gatt, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, who spoke at yesterday’s launch of the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA)’s strategic plan for the next three years.

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