E-Government Development and E-Participation: The Performance of the OIC Member Countries
Date: 05 October 2010

The global financial crisis which broke out in 2007 and was considered by many economists worldwide as the worst ever since the Great Depression of 1930s is a crisis on a global scale triggered by the illiquidity of the US banking system caused by the overvaluation of assets. Still a top item on many governments’ agenda, the crisis had immense devastating results both on the public and private sector.

From the perspective of e-government implementation, the reaction of governments worldwide showed differences at the current financial and economic crisis. While some have lowered/cut their e-government budgets and postponed/decelerated the implementation of e-government projects, others have transformed the crisis into an opportunity.

The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the current performance of the OIC Member Countries in e-government development and e-participation. The UN e-Government Survey 2010 has been used as the main reference document while preparing this report. As in 2009 SESRIC publication of “E-Government Readiness: The Performance of the OIC Member Countries”, this report includes indices of E-Government Development (EGDI), Online Service (OSI), Telecommunication Infrastructure (TII), Human Capital (HCI) and E-Participation (EPI). The comparison for the abovementioned indices of the OIC Member Countries with other regions including the World has been carried out through the data available in the UN e-Government Surveys performed in 2007 and 2009. A more detailed analysis including the comparison of OIC subgroups with the Top-10 OIC Member Countries in each index also has been included in the report. Based on the analysis made, the Report derives conclusions and policy implications for the OIC Member Countries for the sake of improving their e-Government Development Index. Lastly, the Report includes a map for each of the indices visualising the scores of each Member Country based on a performance range.

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