Global E-Government, 2007
1 August 2007
In this report, I present the seventhh annual update on global e-government. Using an analysis of 1,687 government websites in 198 different nations undertaken during Summer, 2007, I investigate electronic government. Among the significant findings of the research are:
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28 percent of government websites offer services that are fully executable online, about the same as last year.
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96 percent of websites this year provide access to publications and 80 percent have links to databases.
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29 percent (up from 26 percent in 2006) show privacy policies, while 21 percent have security policies (up from 14 percent in 2006).
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23 percent of government websites have some form of disability access, meaning access for persons with disabilities, the same as last year.
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Countries vary enormously in their overall e-government performance based on our analysis. The most highly ranked nations include South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Portugal, Australia, Turkey, and Germany.
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