Tag Archive for ‘e-government’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'e-government'

LIRNEasia’s Mobile Benchmarks (South Asia and Southeast Asia) and Broadband Benchmarks Report for October 2008 has been released. Click HERE for more information.

Happy to hear LIRNEasia’s work is appreciated

Rohan Samarajiva

on March 20, 2008

The State of “Broadband” in Sri Lanka - Take 1 « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace)

Lirneasia’s work (in particular their BOP research, on which I have still to write on in this blog) has helped me more than any other organisation to justify my on-going work with citizen journalism and new media as a means through which one can strengthen democratic governance, peace and fundamental rights. Years ago I began work on ICT4Peace with the hunch that mobile devices / phones would change the way in which citizens communicate with governance and governance mechanisms in the swabhasha, and that wireless internet access / cloud computing and diminishing costs of access would make them producers of content instead of passive recipients and consumers of content dished out…

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Tags: Broadband, cloud computing, e-government, Sri Lanka, wireless Internet access.

Asian countries slide e-government rankings

Abu Saeed Khan

on January 14, 2008

A United Nations survey of global e-government readiness has found that many Asian countries are sliding down the rankings. Just one Asian country—South Korea—made the top ten coming in at sixth, with Japan next on 11th.

The next highest was Singapore at a surprisingly low 23rd, and Malaysia at 34th. The top 35 countries are otherwise dominated by Europe, Australasia and North America.

The biggest revelation was that most Asian countries are sliding down the rankings.
Singapore was the most prominent to fall from grace, falling to 22nd from seventh position in 2005. China fell to 65 from 57, India from 87 to 113, Thailand from 46 to 62, the Philippines from 41 to 66 and Indonesia from 96 to 106.

Other countries to slide included Maldives,…

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Tags: Australasia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Denmark, e-government, Europe, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, North America, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, the Philippines, United Nations, United States, Vietnam.

Colloquium: ‘Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority websites of Asia-Pacific Region’

Ayesha Zainudeen

on July 15, 2005

Chanuka Wattegama presents findings from a benchmarking study of regulatory websites. The objective of this study is to do a performance evaluation of the web sites of the Telecommunication National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of selected countries in the Asian Pacific region and benchmark their performance as e-government service providers.
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Points of Discussion:
What is the role of a website in effectiveness of an NRA?
CW – serves as a window to stakeholders
RS – should have website as central organizing factor. organize yourself around putting everything up on the website. when the regulator operates according to the principle that everything you do is reflected on web site, transparency etc becomes embedded in the culture of the organization. it is likely that there’s a correlation between a good website and…

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Tags: Asia-Pacific, Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority, e-government, Federal Communications Commission, less literate and less Internet, Pakistan.

Rohan Responds Rapidly to Nepal

Ayesha Zainudeen

on December 13, 2004

Rapid Response Unit:
14 December 2004

LIRNEasia made a short, but productive call on Nepals High-Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) last week, to advise on jump-starting its e government and reform processes. The visit came within less than ten days of a request for Rapid Response assistance by Mr. Sharad Chandra Shah, HLCITs Vice Chairman.

In his three day visit, executive director Rohan Samarajiva conducted two key sessions, with HLCIT and decision making level representatives of government, private sector and civil society.

The first was a seminar, concerned with how Nepal can rapidly implement e-government initiatives, drawing on experience from Sri Lanka. Samarajiva discussed with the participants different approaches that Nepal could take and what would be most suitable for Nepal, whilst stressing the importance of strategic communication to support…

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Public Administration in an e-Economy

Indi Samarajiva

on September 21, 2004

The service sector drives network economies and information societies. The foundation of this sector is the communication network. As such, modern network economies depend on effective reforms in telecom infrastructure to strengthen links among local, national, regional and international networks and markets.

Professor William H. Melody
Technical University of Denmark
London School of Economics

… in his presentation on public administration in an e-economy to the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration.

Melody further explained that e-government, as the application of new technology to deliver public services - is efficient, effective, and responsive. Timely application of new technology will make the government better, cheaper and faster.

Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to Hon. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, co-chair, reported that the Sri Lankan government is taking steps to reengineer itself as a…

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Tags: CISCO Internet Business Solutions Group, communication network, e-gov, e-government, Information Communication Technology Agency, Lalith Weeratunga, LIRNEasia, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Public Administration, public services, Rohan Samarajiva, Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration, Sri Lankan government, Technical University of Denmark London School of Econom, telecom infrastructure, William H. Melody.

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