Citizens Vote Delhi As Best eGoverned State Followed By Goa
While Delhi, Chandigarh and Goa are rated the best in terms of e-network access by their households where a State’s e-network policies are concerned, the Southern regions take over, according to an Assocham assessment on ‘E-governance initiatives’.
“A country’s e-readiness measures the current state of its ICT infrastructure and the degree to which its consumers, businesses and governments are able to capitalise on Internet-based opportunities. It determines the degree to which a country is prepared to participate in the networked world. The States have been rated on parameters: network access, e-learning, network society, e-governance and network economy,” said Assocham Secretary, General D. S. Rawat.
- Delhi, Chandigarh and Goa have been rated the best in terms of network access. Moreover, Delhi and Chandigarh are equally well in e-learning, which is based on percentage of colleges and schools with Internet access, universities offering infotech courses and computer labs.
- Network policies, which are evaluated on government’s efforts to address issues, related to telecom and e-commerce is better in most southern States including Maharashtra.
- Network society, which is measured on the number of online companies and local language websites is better in States such as Karnataka and Chandigarh.
- Andhra Pradesh’s initiatives such as Rajiv Internet Village launched in 2004 seeks to provide a host of services to the rural population through its 22,000 kiosks. Due to these measures it is estimated that Andhra Pradesh will capture 41% of the national IT and IT-enabled services market by 2010.
- Sikkim from the North-Eastern region has done well with its community information centres (CICs) and well established network access. [Via]