The UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance

The last evaluation on e-government has been published 2 months ago by the United Nation. This highly expected survey has their focus on citizen participation. This particular aspect gives to this index a special value for all people interested on citizens participation topics.

As it has been mentioned on all sections of this revision, the most important goal currently, is how new technologies and how local and national government changes from an informative stage, to a more participative stage.

Without a doubt efforts as UN has doing with this ranking, allow to researchers and to citizens, having a better understanding about how e-government is continuously changing. But must important than changes, public and research can take attention over new challenges and cultural transformation around the world.

It is important to realize that this index can contribute to the discussion and to the public debate about the future of e-government, and which kind of citizen our society must to expect and should to former for a vertiginous and fast world.

Maybe 10 years ago talking about citizen empowerment trough the Internet was only a dream, today is a responsibility not only for the government, but also and probably more critically transcendent , it is a responsibility for all citizens interested in our future as society and as world.

E–Government Readiness Index Top 10 Countries Country Index Sweden 0.9157 Denmark 0.9134 Norway 0.8921 United States 0.8644 Netherlands 0.8631 Republic of Korea 0.8317 Canada 0.8172 Australia 0.8108 France 0.8038 United Kingdom 0.7872

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E–Participation Index Top 10 Countries Country Index United States 1.0000 Republic of Korea 0.9773 Denmark 0.9318 France 0.9318 Australia 0.8864 New Zealand 0.7955 Mexico 0.7500 Estonia 0.7273 Sweden 0.6591 Singapore 0.6364