(Press-News.org) Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Tokyo, Japan, 2 February 2011 – The
Waseda University Institute of e-Government has released the 2011 Waseda
University World e-Government Ranking, marking its seventh consecutive
year of monitoring the development of e-Government worldwide. Singapore
is once again at the top of the list.
The complete list of the top 15 countries (economies) which have the most advanced
development in e-government according to the Waseda Survey are: (1) Singapore,
(2) USA, (3) Sweden, (4) Korea, (5) Finland, (6) Japan, (7) Canada, (8) Estonia, (9)
Belgium, (10) United Kingdom / Denmark, (12) Italy, (13)Taiwan, (14) Australia,
(15) Norway. The 2011 ranking surveys the e-Government development of 50
countries altogether. New to the rankings are 10 countries, which were added to the
survey for the first time: Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Macau SAR,
Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, and Uzbekistan.
Prof. Dr. Toshio Obi, Director of the Waseda Institute and Head of the research team
observed that "ICT can be a powerful tool to current economic issues and in doing
so, consolidate an inclusive Information Society. Governments are key actors in this
process in building towards a citizen-oriented state".
Altogether, there are seven main indicators used to carry out the survey. These
indicators are: network preparedness, required interface-functioning applications,
management optimization, national portal, CIO in government, e-Government
promotion and e-participation.
Over the past seven years, the Waseda e-Government research team has surveyed
the developments and observed the trends in the e-government arena. Some of the
more prominent or interesting trends deal not just with technological developments,
but also "paradigms" of how ICT is to be viewed within the context of solving
problems.
INFORMATION:
The complete report of the Waseda Rankings will be published in the Journal of EGovernance
(ISSN 1878-7673, edited by Mr. Russell Pipe and published by IOS
Press) in volume 34, number 2. The article with the Waseda Rankings is open
access, available at
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/m35mg510818432k1/?p=6b79b62ac10c426
9b88720f7c369a0e1π=2.
IOS Press is strongly focused on e-Governance in its public administration portfolio.
Besides the Journal of E Governance, IOS Press publishes the journal Information
Polity, the book series Innovation and the Public Sector and the Global E-Governance
book series. The latter features The Innovative CIO and e-Participation in e-
Government Initiatives by Prof. Dr. Toshio Obi, describing all research reports of the
targeted e-government analyses of last year's rankings. Please visit www.iospress.nl
for more information.
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