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  • South Korea: Masan: The world’s speediest e-city

    The city of Masan in South Korea is home to the world’s fastest internet speeds. High-speed fibre-to-home connections in densely populated living areas and wireless zones in public places have helped achieved average web speeds of 15,839 Kbps.

    The city of 429,000 people in South Gyeongsang Province ranked top of a list of the top 100 cities with the fastest average connection speeds by Akamai, a content delivery firm that serves 20 per cent of web traffic globally.

    “A competitive environment for telco providers has led to investment in infrastructure in areas previously underserved by the internet. This process is ongoing,” A Masan city spokesman, told FutureGov.

  • South Korea: Red Tape Weakens IT Power

    Cumbersome administrative procedures and regulations are overshadowing South Korea’s competitiveness in the IT industry despite its well-established high-speed Internet resources, a report from the World Economic Forum showed Wednesday.

    According to the forum’s annual Global Information Technology Report released Wednesday, Korea was the most active country in the world in terms of private firms’ Internet usage, and second best in the high-speed Internet penetration rate. On the contrary, it was lowly ranked in the administrative process for starting new businesses (89th), efficiency of taxation (71st) and accessibility to venture capital (68th).

  • South Korea: Seoul comes top of e-governance survey

    Seoul has been ranked top for the second year running in an international survey grading e-governance initiatives in 100 cities.

    The biannual survey, a project jointly conducted by the Institute of e-governance at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea and Rutgers University in the United States, researched five aspects of each city's cabability for operating e-governance systems. They were graded in terms of security-privacy, usability, content, service and citizen participation. Seoul won four categories among the five.

  • South Korea: Seoul ranks 1st on e-gov't survey

    Seoul City ranked first on the 2010 Rutgers Global E-Governance Survey, securing the position for the fourth year in a row.

    The Rutgers survey is conducted by the E-Governance Institute, School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute at Sungkyunkwan University and sponsored by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the American Society for Public Administration.

  • South Korea: Seoul tops global cities ranking for e-govt

    The South Korean capital of Seoul is the world’s most advanced municipal e-government, according to a global survey of city web sites. The “Soul of Asia” topped the UN-sponsored table ahead of Prague, Hong Kong, New York and Singapore on the usability, content, services, privacy and inclusiveness of its online operations.

    Seoul, which was the world’s first city to introduce wireless high-speed mobile internet services, was singled out for giving its citizens the opportunity to play an active role in governmental processes, such as the submission of ideas and suggestions on e-policies via well-organised policy forums.

  • South Korea's e-Government Again Ranked World's Best

    Korea has been voted best e-government for the third straight year in a report from a U.S.-based think tank.

    The Brookings Institution evaluated nearly 1,700 government websites from almost 200 countries for the ranking.

  • South Korea's e-Govt. Usage Would Rank 7th in EU

    A new survey suggests roughly four in ten Koreans have recently used the website of a government agency, a level high enough to put Korea in seventh place when compared to countries in the European Union.

    The Ministry of Public Administration and Security says the study, based on EU standards, polling citizens aged 16 to 74, found that 39 percent of respondents used government websites in the last three months.

  • South Korea’s e-Government Development amazes the World in Winning UN e-Government Survey 2012

    An Interview with Dr. Chang Kwang-su, the Assistant Minister MOPAS

    The year 2011 was an historic year for the informatization of Korea,” said Dr. Chang Kwang-su Assistant Minister at the Informatization Strategy Office of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) when asked about the national informatization project of the organization. ” Korea’s exports of e-government solutions surpassed USD 200 million on the basis of its number one position in the evaluation of e-governments by the UN and winning a public administration prize given by the UN.”

    The United Nations Public Administration Programme has announced the launch of its “E-Government Survey 2012: E-Government for the People” on 29 February 2012, and Korea maintains its position in the 1st place since 2010 as achieving the greatest e-government both in development and participation indices.

  • South Korean E-government Service Ranked 32nd in the World

    Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Monaco, and China are the top performing "electronic" governments, according to a recent global survey. Korean government websites ranked 32th, showing improvement from last year’s 87th, according to research of government websites in 198 countries conducted by the Center for Public Policy at Brown University of the United States.

  • Stadt Neuruppin und Amt Neustadt (Dosse) sind Brandenburgs eKommune2006

    Amt Brück mit Sonderpreis – Wachsende Bedeutung von Online-Dienstleistungen

    Der diesjährige kommunale Internetwettbewerb in Brandenburg ist entschieden. Die Stadt Neuruppin in der Kategorie "Kommunen mit mehr als 20.000 Einwohnern" und das Amt Neustadt (Dosse) in der Kategorie "Kommunen bis 20.000 Einwohner" dürfen sich als Sieger mit dem Titel "eKommune 2006" schmücken. Der Sonderpreis für interkommunale Zusammenarbeit im Bereich elektronischer Behördendienste ging an das Amt Brück. Innenminister Jörg Schönbohm und die stellvertretende Geschäftsführerin des Städte- und Gemeindebundes, Monika Gordes, überreichten am Freitag in Potsdam die Siegerurkunden und die Schecks mit dem Preisgeld in Höhe von jeweils 3.000 Euro.

  • Städte-Vergleich: Wohnungswechsel online melden

    Mehr als zehn Prozent der Deutschen wechseln jährlich den Wohnort. Dafür bieten immer mehr Meldeämter Formulare auf ihren Websites zum Download an. Der Online-Service Meldeaemter.de nahm alle virtuellen Rathäuser von Städten mit über 50.000 Einwohnern unter die Lupe.

  • Studie: Hannover mit bestem Internet-Auftritt

    Der Internet-Auftritt der Stadt Hannover ist in einer Studie der Fachhochschule Münster als der bundesweit beste aller Großstädte bewertet worden. Die Forscher haben anhand von 223 Kriterien die Angebote von 122 Städten untersucht, teilte die Stadt Hannover am Dienstag mit.

  • Study: U.S. not the leader in e-Government

    The United States ranks third, behind South Korea and Taiwan, in a comparison of national government Web sites and electronic government initiatives, according to a new study of 1,667 national government sites from 198 nations.

    Although the U.S. government did rise one slot in the rankings from last year, it is falling behind other countries in broadband access, public-sector innovation and implementation of the latest interactive tools to federal Web sites, according to a study released Aug. 17 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think thank.

  • Sudan Ranks 16th in Arab world, 154th worldwide in E-government

    According to a report released by UNESCO, Sudan has occupied the 16th rank Arab world-wise and in the 154th internationally in the E-government preparedness index. The report explained that the components of the international index are based on the central government preparedness and promptness as regards three main axis index: E- government index in the Internet, the telecommunications infrastructure index which is based on data and statistics and human resources index.

  • Swaziland has improved slightly in e-govt development rankings

    Swaziland’s placing in the World e-Government development ranking has slightly improved.

    According to the e-Government document, the country has experienced marginal growth in information and communication technology (ICT), which has seen its ranking improve by just one position.

    It states that Swaziland now occupies the 145th place at the lower end of the ranking though better placed than countries in Western Africa (Ghana ranked 147 to Niger at 183). The document says competition in the African telecommunications market was increasingly intense.

  • Sweden Is the Best at Taking Advantage Of Its Technology

    Ranking as number one in the Global Information Technology Report

    Sweden is now considered the most networked country in the world, according to the latest Global Information Technology Report from The World Economic Forum. The report doesn't rank countries by their information and communication technology capabilities alone, though that certainly plays an indirect role, but looks at how those countries are utilizing that infrastructure to their advantage.

  • Sweden Tops 2008 E-Government Readiness Report; U.S. Drops to Fourth

    The United Nations just released its 2008 E-Government Readiness Report, ranking countries by e-government development.

    The 250-plus page report "UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance" indicate that while governments are moving forward in e-government development around the world, most lack the investment needed to move from e-government applications to a more integrated connected governance stage. Northern European countries, however, have integrated national and ministerial Web sites for more integrated program delivery, according to the report.

  • Switzerland lags behind on e-government

    A European Commission study says Switzerland is near the bottom of the e-government class – but is slowly improving.

    Switzerland was ranked 26th out of 31 European countries for the sophistication and availability of its online public services.

    The report found that only 21 per cent of the monitored public services were fully available online in Switzerland – up ten per cent on 2006 - compared with the European average of 58 per cent.

  • Taiwan falls to second place in online government

    An annual survey conducted by Brown University on online government services has again ranked Taiwan highly as Asian countries continued to dominate the top positions.

    Taiwan ranked second in the latest global e-government survey, which was conducted during June and July this year by evaluating 1,782 government Web sites of 198 countries.

  • Taiwan gets high rating in e-government service

    Over the past two decades, Taiwan's government has achieved much in terms of providing people with prompt and efficient services through simplification of administrative procedures, speeding up the handling of petition cases, eradicating administrative red tape and, most recently, establishing e-government systems to provide up-to-date information on government policies and activities.

    The overall goal was to establish a transparent, efficient and modern government that is responsive and responsible to the public. Needless to say, this effort also bespeaks the development of a full-fledged democratic system in Taiwan.

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