Like ease of doing business, India jumps 22 places in UN’s e-governance survey this year

NewsBharati    31-Jul-2018
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New Delhi, July 31: Our Country in these four years has seen nothing but the path of progress as India has broken into the top 100 in the United Nation’s E-government Index in 2018. India’s rank has improved by 22 places in the past four years and 11 ranks in the past two years. Currently, India occupies the 96th position in the ranking.

 

India is among top 15 in the e-participation sub-index with a score of 0.9551. It has performed poorly in the Telecommunication Infrastructure Index, with a score of 0.20091. On Human Capital Index, India has scored below the world average. It has secured a score of 0.6627. India’s overall score is 0.5484.

E-government has been employed to mean everything from ‘online government services’’ to ‘exchange of information and services electronically with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government’. Traditionally, e-government has been considered as the use of ICTs for improving the efficiency of government agencies and providing government services online. Later, the framework of e-government has broadened to include use of ICT by government for conducting a wide range of interactions with citizens and businesses as well as open government data and use of ICTs to enable innovation in governance.

 

The EGDI is based on a comprehensive Survey of the online presence of all 193 United Nations Member States, which assesses national websites and how e-government policies and strategies are applied in general and in specific sectors for delivery of essential services. The assessment rates the e-government performance of countries relative to one another as opposed to being an absolute measurement. The results are tabulated and combined with a set of indicators embodying a country’s capacity to participate in the information society, without which e-government development efforts are of limited immediate use