A UN sponsored report looked at the municipalities across the world and rated their level of eGovernance based on number of metrics. The study looked at 80 large cities and analyzed them using 92 measures in five core areas: 1. Security and Privacy, 2. Usability, 3. Content, 4. Services, and 5. Citizen Participation.
Four of the overall top five cities came from Asia (1. Seoul, 2. Hong Kong, 3. Singapore, 4. New York, and 5. Shanghai).
The full report is available here, and a table listing the cities in their rankings in each category is available here.
I wish this story about egov initiatives in India was a little more detailed (anyone have a better source for info?), but it does support my continual contention that it is possible for "third world" governments/economies to leap frog over the industrial age into the information age and become strong precences. A government like India's has much more to gain by embracing eGov than most western nations, if only because they've got a wider gap between potential and the current reality. This IT park they mention in the article is an excellent way to begin providing services to those who'd otherwise never be able to interact with government, even if the government were e-nabled, because they personally wouldn't have access to the technology to egage in that interaction. It sounds very exciting, but I'd really love to read more about this.
I wish this story about egov initiatives in India was a little more detailed (anyone have a better source for info?), but it does support my continual contention that it is possible for "third world" governments/economies to leap frog over the industrial age into the information age and become strong precences. A government like India's has much more to gain by embracing eGov than most western nations, if only because they've got a wider gap between potential and the current reality. This IT park they mention in the article is an excellent way to begin providing services to those who'd otherwise never be able to interact with government, even if the government were e-nabled, because they personally wouldn't have access to the technology to egage in that interaction. It sounds very exciting, but I'd really love to read more about this.