Determining Progress Towards e-Government: What are the Core Indicators?

ADEGBOYEGA OJO; TOMASZ JANOWSKI; ELSA ESTEVEZ

Amberes

Conferencia; 5th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG); 2005

University of Antwerp

There are several well-established surveys on e-government. These surveys employ different assessment models for e-readiness, digital divide and other relevant factors, leading to varying conclusions on the global state of e-government. This paper presents a comparative study of 11 international surveys on e-government between 2001 and 2004. It identifies a common set of "core indicators" for assessing e-readiness and suggests ways to determine the weights for them. The paper also introduces the concept of a "target e-ready state" and examines how it may provide a scale for determining the progress of individual countries.