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India ranks poor in UN e-Governance meter
Source: iGovernment, by Prithwi Raj Sinha, http://igovernment.in/site/india-ranks-poor-un-e-governance-meter?utm_source=newsletter-core&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120320
Source Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Focus: ICT for MDGs
Country: India
Created: Mar 26, 2012

Hyderabad: Despite being the largest democracy in the world with the need for effective and transparent public governance, India stood at the bottom of the UN E-Government Survey 2012 rankings among less known nations like Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
 
Even nations like Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Chile, Latvia, Colombia, Barbados, Barbuda and Uruguay have performed better than India, which stood at 125th position in the UN survey with an E-Government Development Index (EGDI) of 0.3829.
 
EGDI measures the willingness and capacity of national administrations to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to deliver public services.
 
The current ranking is ironically down from the previous ranking of 119 in 2010 in the UN survey for that year.
 
Neighboring countries Sri Lanka, Iran and Maldives are ahead of India in the e-Governance index, while Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan are below India’s ranking.
 
However, India is making efforts to move forward to use technology for delivering social benefits to its poor with its Aadhaar scheme and other IT applications.
 
According to the survey, India is among the one quarter of all countries publicly committed to considering the results of e-participation in the policy-making process.
 
India also belongs to the half of all countries who provide a gateway to regional and/or local governments by linking to them from their national page or portal.
 
The survey, based on a study of government Web portals of member states, showed that South Korea retains the top position with EGDI score of 9.283/10, ahead of The Netherlands and the UK, followed by Denmark, the US, France and Sweden.
 
UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang said the increasing role of e-Government in promoting inclusive and participatory development has gone hand-in-hand with the growing demands for transparency and accountability in all regions of the world.
 
"This increasing role makes it all the more necessary to strengthen development cooperation aimed at bridging the digital divide," Sha added.
 
The UN survey also highlights that countries have moved from a decentralised, single-purpose model to a unified whole-of-government model for e-Governance.
 
The survey lists lack of access to both ICT and education infrastructure in the developing countries, such as India, as a major constraint on the development of e-Governance.
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