It has been found that foreign high-ranking public officials who sojourned in Korea lately for e-governance training are positive about its e-government system. It implies that Korea’s electronic administration system, which has topped the UN e-Government Survey for two consecutive years, can make a highly promising export product down the road.

The Electronic Times and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security recently surveyed 11 countries’ civil servants who stayed in Korea for the purpose. 42.1% of the respondents answered that they were going to adopt the Korean system while 57.9% said they were mulling over doing so in their countries.

78.9% of those surveyed were aware of Korea’s having ranked first at the UN survey for two years in a row and only 2% said they were not. No less than 84.2% of them were considering Korea’s e-government infrastructure much superior to their nations’ and the rest 15.8% said the former was slightly better.

The questions were given to the 19 government employees from 11 countries -- Bangladesh, Mongolia, Bhutan, Fiji, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Panama, Zambia, Burkina Faso and Libya. They attended the e-governance training program hosted by Seoul between March 12 and 16.