International e-Government,
Waseda University andInternational Academy of CIO

The 12th Waseda - IAC International
e-Government Rankings Survey 2016
ReportJuly 2016, Tokyo, Japan

Preface
Professor, Dr. Toshio OBI
Institute of e-Government, Waseda University
This report of the 12th edition is published by Institute of e-Government, Waseda
University with the history of more than one decade on its activities of e-Government
Ranking survey. It is great honor and much pleasure that I have edited and contributed
to the contents of this report. During one decade since 2005 which started this annual
ranking survey, there have been a wide range of challenges on changing technologies
such as IoT, Big Data, Cloud and 4G mobile under new Internet / Digital economy inaddition to rapid growth of ICT innovation and applications.
As the editor of this report, I would express particular attention to encouraging policy
reforms to support the usability by citizens as users with demand side centriccomprehensive approach and enabling new mechanisms for sharing the common
solution oriented approach. Also, I suggest effective partnership among government,
business, and academia to create innovative governance model for public and private
partnership (PPP) in global context. To set up the national priority, the lessons learnt
from the best practices in the report will contribute to the parties concerned.
I am deeply indebted to my colleagues and staff of the Institute as well as International
Academy of CIO which I have been serving as president. In addition, I have learnt frompartners such as ITU, OECD, EU, WB and APEC as well as many academia institutions
and research centers. My deep appreciation is extended to the distinguishedinternational Experts Group from 11 world prominent universities.
Finally, I think there are some issues left for further discussion such as e-Government vs.
digital government, also, Chief Information Officer vs. Chief Innovation Officer, in
addition, new international ranking survey for mega cities and e-local governments inthe future. I trust the readers will learn a lot on e-Government issues from this report.
July 2016. Tokyo

Executive Summary
The Institute of e-Government, Waseda University (Director Prof. Dr. Toshio Obi),
has released the results of the 2016 Waseda-IAC International e-Government ranking
survey for the 12th consecutive year. The 2016 ranking survey marks Singapore stayingrd

at first place, followed by USA in 2nd, Denmark in 3 , Korea in 4
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and Japan in 5ththplace. Estonia is in 6 , Canada in 7 , Australia in 8 , New Zealand in 9 and both thethUnited Kingdom and Taiwan ranked 10 .
For the 2016 survey, the research has been conducted in part through workshops
and forums, and also the team has arranged professional meetings and discussions witha variety of international and national organizations to improve oversight and objectivity.
These organizations include the Organization for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU), the World Bank (WB), and many other government
agencies, Think tanks and NGO/NPOs in charge of e-Government activities in theirrespective countries.
The 2016 ranking marks a new decade of e-government development, an era ofInternet/Digital economy where some countries have reached the ultimate goal of theire-government strategic plans. The ranking should adjust to accommodate any initiativesof those countries to shift their e-government into a new iteration. It also marks thesignificant positive changes in the application of the new trends of ICT inadministration. Therefore, in order to effectively evaluate the application of new trends
in each country, the research team conducted a survey by sending a questionnaire to
relevant government officers as well as experts globally. The 9 main indicators haveremained from previous years. In 2016, the Waseda-IAC e-Government ranking added“The use of Emerging ICT” as the 10th indicator in evaluating e-Government in 63
countries and 2 new countries: Ireland and Lithuania. This makes a total of sixty-fivecountries (economies) compared to sixty-three last year.
There is a diversity of the trends including digital innovation and regulatoryenvironment .Major findings as the key characteristics this time are as follows:(1) Strong movement on citizen /user centric approach to e-Government online services
is recognized as the step toward e-Participation,(2) Finding out the best practice and application is needed for the future perspective ofmobile government via usage of smartphone as a part of e-Government frameworkii

(3) There is a lack of effective and productive cooperation between central and local
e-Governments. And the urgent coordination among major stakeholders is necessary
for reducing the duplication of activities and services and strengthening thepartnership.
(4) It is a high time to make re-evaluation on e-Government activities and create the
new model of comprehensive digital government in order to attain the UN
Sustainable Development Goals in this sector.
In order to obtain the latest and most accurate information, and to assess therelevant data, the research team at the Institute of e-Government at Waseda University
headed by Professor Toshio Obi has conducted the ranking in cooperation with experts,
researchers from partner universities around the world under IAC (International
Academy of CIO), including George Mason University (USA), Bocconi University(Italy),University of Turku (Finland), Peking University (China), Thammasat University(Thailand), De La Salle University (Philippines), Bandung Institute of Technology(Indonesia), National University of Singapore (Singapore), Federal Academy School of
IT Management (Russia), Czech Technical University (Czech Republic), and the main
contributor, Waseda University (Japan).
This report contains Chapter 3 [Sector Analysis] with 10 indicators, Chapter 4, 5,
and 6 as rankings by organizations, size of population and GDP and Regions, andChapter 7 [Highlights], Chapter 8 for Methodology. Chapter 10 introduces [65 country
assessment reports attached as appendix].
An analysis of the twelve years of the Waseda – IAC e-Government Rankings
Survey indicates the following seven highlights:(1) Ageing Societies and e-Government (Societies are now becoming ageing at an
alarming level in both developed and developing countries around the world)(2) E-Government service quality to be evaluated by marketing model(3) The impact of national policy to the development of e-Government at local level(4) E-Government for combating corruption through new mechanism(5) The usage of emerging technologies in e-Government such as IoT and Big data
(6) E-Government development for the issues of less developed countries(7) Mobile Government in transitioniii

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface .............................................................................................................................. i
Executive Summary........................................................................................................ ii
I.

2016 Overall Ranking .......................................................................................... 1II.

E-Government Ranking by Indicators............................................................... 7

III.

Sectors Analysis .................................................................................................. 10

1. Network Preparedness/Digital Infrastructure....................................................... 10
2. Management Optimization................................................................................... 10
3. Online Services/ Applications...............................................................................11
4. National Portal/Homepage ....................................................................................11
5. Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO).................................................. 12
6. E-Government Promotion .................................................................................... 13
7. E-Participation/ Digital Inclusion ........................................................................ 14
8. Open Government Data ....................................................................................... 15
9. Cyber Security...................................................................................................... 16
10.
IV.

The Use of Emerging ICT ................................................................................ 17
E-Government Ranking by Organizations ...................................................... 18

1. Ranking of APEC Economies .............................................................................. 18
2. Ranking of OECD Countries ............................................................................... 19V.

E-Government Ranking by the Size of Population and GDP ........................ 20
1. Ranking in Big Population Countries (bigger than 100 million) ......................... 20
2. Ranking in Small Population Countries (Less than 10 million) .......................... 21
3. E-Government Ranking in Top 10 Countries with biggest GDP in World .......... 22

VI.

E-Government Ranking by Regions................................................................. 22

1. Ranking in Asian Countries ................................................................................. 22
2. Ranking in Americas Countries ........................................................................... 23
3. Ranking in European Countries ........................................................................... 24iv

4. Ranking in Africa, Middle East and CIS Countries ............................................. 25
VII. Highlights............................................................................................................ 26
1. Ageing Societies and e-Government.................................................................... 26
2. E-Government service quality as new Evaluation model .................................... 27
3 The impact of national policy to the development of e-Government at local level .
28
4. E-Government for combating corruption............................................................. 29
5. The usage of emerging technologies in e-Government........................................ 31
6. E-Government development trend and issues of Least Developed Countries..... 32
7. Mobile Government in transition......................................................................... 33
VIII. Methodology ....................................................................................................... 34
1. Outline.................................................................................................................. 34
2. Sample of Questionnaires to Government Officers and experts .......................... 35
3. SWOT Analysis.................................................................................................... 36
4. Data Analysis ....................................................................................................... 37
5. Experts Group Meetings ...................................................................................... 38
6. Processes of Evaluation ....................................................................................... 39
IX.

Contributors List................................................................................................ 40

1. List of Global Experts Group............................................................................... 40
2. List of Professors and Experts at Institute of e-Government, Waseda University40
3. List of Researchers at Institute of e-Government, Waseda University ................ 40

The list of country Assessment reports (65 countries/economies)
Singapore, USA, Denmark, Korea, Japan, Estonia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK,
Taiwan, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, France, Netherlands, Germany,
Ireland, Thailand, Belgium, Portugal, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Israel, Italy, Spain,
Czech, Russia, Malaysia, Macau, Indonesia, Chile, India, Romania, Poland, Philippines,
Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Turkey, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Brunei, Brazil, China,
Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Lithuania, Peru, South Africa, Tunisia, Columbia, Venezuela,
Georgia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Morocco, Kenya, Pakistan, Fiji, Egypt, Nigeriav

List of Tables:
Table 1: Waseda – IAC e-Government Total Ranking 2016 .................................... 1
Table 2: List of Scores by Indicators of Top Ten countries (economy).................... 2
Table 3: E-Government Development Matrix .......................................................... 3
Table 4: 4 Quadrants of E-Gov. Development Matrix.............................................. 4
Table 5: The Main Indicators and Sub-Indicators .................................................... 8
Table 6: List of Cores by indicators of Top Ten Country ......................................... 9
Table 7: e-Government Ranking in APEC Economies........................................... 18
Table 8: e-Government Ranking in OECD Countries ............................................ 19
Table 9: e-Government Ranking in Big Population Countries............................... 20
Table 10: e-Government Ranking in Small Population Countries ......................... 21
Table 11: e-Government Ranking with biggest GDP Group .................................. 22
Table 12: e-Government Ranking in Asian Countries............................................ 23
Table 13: e-Government Ranking in Americas Countries...................................... 23
Table 14: e-Government Ranking in European Countries...................................... 24
Table 15: e-Government Ranking in Africa, Middle East and CIS Countries ....... 25
Table 16: List of main Indicators............................................................................ 38
Table 17: Process Diagram ..................................................................................... 39vi

I. 2016 Overall Ranking
In 2016, there were some changes in evaluating e-Government development in the
Waseda-IAC international e-Government ranking. Firstly, the research survey changed
the total of the indicator from nine to ten main indicators. Secondly, the number ofsub-indicators remained the same as previous years, but the evaluation questions in
sub-indicators were re-planned in order to optimize and match the changing trends of
ICT. Thirdly, evaluation methodology is adjusted in order to fit with the 10 mainindicators and 35 sub-indicators. Furthermore, the number of countries (economies)
increased from 63 to 65. Table 1 below shows the final overall 2016 Waseda-IAC
International e-Government ranking.
No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
12
13
14
15
16
16
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32

Country(Economy)
Singapore
USA
Denmark
Korea
Japan
Estonia
CanadaAustralia
New Zealand
UK
TaiwanNorwayAustria
SwedenFinland
IcelandFranceNetherlands
Germany
IrelandThailandBelgium
PortugalHong Kong
Switzerland
Israel
Italy
Spain
Czech
RussiaMalaysia
Macau

Score
91.0
90.2
88.8
85.7
83.2
81.8
79.9
76.4
74.1
72.7
72.7
70.0
69.6
68.0
67.6
67.3
67.3
65.7
65.1
64.8
64.5
64.0
63.8
63.1
63.0
61.9
61.5
60.6
59.7
58.7
58.4
58.3

No
32
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65

Country(Economy)
Indonesia
Chile
India
Romania
PolandPhilippines
BahrainUAE
Oman
TurkeyMexicoKazakhstan
Vietnam
Brunei
BrazilChina
Saudi Arabia
Argentina
Lithuania
Peru
South Africa
Tunisia
Columbia
Venezuela
Georgia
Uruguay
Costa Rica
MoroccoKenya
PakistanFiji
Egypt
Nigeria

Table 1: Waseda – IAC e-Government Total Ranking 2016
1

Score
58.3
58.2
57.8
57.2
56.8
56.7
55.5
54.8
53.4
52.3
51.5
51.4
51.2
50.9
50.5
50.3
49.4
46.2
45.3
44.5
44.1
44.0
42.0
41.9
41.5
41.1
40.9
40.7
40.4
39.7
38.3
36.8
35.0

Table 2: List of Scores by Indicators of Top Ten countries (economy)
Indicators

Singapore

USA

Denmark

Korea

Japan

Estonia

Network Prep.
Online Service
Open Government.
Cyber Security
Mgt Optimizati
e-Participation
CIO
e-Promotion
Emerging TechPortal
Total

7.6
11.1
9.5
9.8
11.7
8.2
9.4
9.7
6.7
7.3
91.0

7.2
11.3
9.6
9.0
11.4
9.8
9.1
8.2
7.2
7.4
90.2

7.9
11.2
9.4
9.0
11.8
8.5
8.4
8.3
7.0
7.3
88.8

7.5
11.2
9.2
9.3
11.6
8.0
7.9
7.7
7.9
5.4
85.7

7.3
9.9
9.2
9.1
11.5
7.5
9.1
9.3
5.6
4.7
83.2

7.0
10.9
7.8
9.3
11.3
9.7
8.5
7.1
3.0
7.2
81.8

Network Prep.
Online Service
Open government
Cyber Security
Mgt Optimizati
e-Participation
CIO
e-Promotion
Emerging TechPortalTotal

Canada
6.6
11.2
9.3
7.2
11.2
9.6
7.9
6.4
3.4
7.1
79.9

Australia
7.0
10.8
8.2
8.4
11.4
6.0
6.2
8.3
3.0
7.1
76.4

New Zealand
6.9
9.9
9.3
9.4
11.2
6.0
7.9
3.5
3.3
6.7
74.1

UK
7.0
6.9
9.0
8.5
9.6
9.2
7.8
4.5
3.0
7.2
72.7

Taiwan
5.3
8.8
9.0
7.6
8.8
7.5
7.7
7.4
5.0
5.6
72.7

The 2016 ranking marks a wide score variance in the top 10 of the rankings. In theoverall ranking, Singapore remains the 1st place as the country with the highest scorefor e-Government development in the Waseda-IAC e-Government ranking. Thanks tothe adoption of digital solutions and new technology, USA is 2nd, followed by Denmarkin 3rd place. This is the highest position that Denmark ranked during the twelve years of
the ranking. In the top ten, South Korea increases its position this year as 4th and Japan
stands at 5th place. Both Estonia and Canada also jumped two slots ahead and is 6th and7th this year while Australia slipped slightly from 7th last year to 8th place. Like Estonia,
New Zealand made a big jump from 13th last year to 9th this year. This is the first time
New Zealand made the top ten list. A big change in the top ten group of the ranking is
the United Kingdom, which slipped from 4th last year to 10th this year. Taiwan made a
big effort to join the top ten group this year as even rank with UK.
In the middle tier of the ranking, there are many variations in scores and positionsof evaluated countries. Some developed countries such as Sweden, Finland, andGermany are on a downward trend in the ranking due to not having major
2e-Government activities this year. Their positions are 14th, 15th and19th respectively.
Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), and Macau made obvious advances in e-Government
development. Compared to last year, their positions have improved significantly.
Ireland and Lithuania are two new countries. They are EU members but theirpositions are different. Even though it was the first time in the Waseda-IAC
e-Government ranking, Ireland has a very good position in the middle of the total
ranking at 20th while Lithuania ranked at 51th even while the Lithuanian government
continues to place e-Government development as a high priority.
A big change in the middle tier of the ranking is the positions of Indonesia, UAE,
Brunei, and Vietnam. Indonesia slipped 4 slots and is 33th while UAE and Brunei
slipped 10 and 3 slots behind compared to last year, respectively. In Vietnam, online
service delivery is still limited, despite a high rate of internet penetration. Lack ofconsistent direction in e-Government implementation, especially in local governments,
resulted in highly fragmented e-Government initiatives and impeded collaboration anddata sharing among agencies.
The bottom tier of this ranking consists of familiar names from last year, such as
Pakistan, Fiji, Egypt, Costa Rica, and Nigeria. In this group, Nigeria is the country that
had big change. It fell from 58th to 65th this year. Nigeria still needs to improve her ICT
services and telecommunication systems. This year, Nigeria replaced Kenya ranking at
the bottom of the overall ranking.
Table 3: E-Government Development Matrix

The e-Government Development Matrix attempt to cluster the countries into four
quadrants; Quadrant I (the upper left), Quadrant II (the lower left), Quadrant III (thelower right), and Quadrant IV (the upper right). Countries in Quadrant I are the country
whose governance readiness is above average. Quadrant II clusters the countries whoseboth governance and technology readiness are still below average. Quadrant III is the3

opposite of Quadrant I in which the technology readiness is above average. Quadrant IV
is the segment for the country whose both aspects are above average.
Table 4: 4 Quadrants of E-Gov. Development Matrix
Quadrant I

Quadrant II

Quadrant III

Quadrant IV

Italy

Mexico

Peru

Chile

USA

Australia

Germany

PolandArgentina

Romania

Denmark

New ZealandPortugal

TurkeyMorocco

Spain

Japan

Austria

Czech Republic

Kazakhstan

Venezuela

Oman

South Korea

Belgium

India

Vietnam

Kenya

UAE

Singapore

RussiaMalaysia

Saudi Arabia

Colombia

BahrainEstonia

ThailandIndonesia

China

Uruguay

Lithuania

NorwayHong Kong

Philippines

BrazilGeorgia

FinlandMacau

South Arica

Brunei

Iceland

TaiwanTunisia

Fiji

IrelandNetherland

Pakistan

Egypt

SwedenFranceCosta Rica

Nigeria

UnitedKingdoms

Switzerland
IsraelCanadaThe evaluation of the development of e-Government in countries through thee-Government rating charts that Waseda University publishes is a useful method to see
the overall picture of ICT applications and e-Government development in many
countries around the world (65 countries as of 2016). By carefully analyzing 10 mainindicators, covering most of the concepts related to ICT trends and e-Government, thee-Government ranking from Waseda University has contributed to an overall plan toassess the development of e-Government.
This model fully evaluates the development of e-Government from the user’s
perspective and based on the organization's impact. To clarify the impact of theorganization on e-Government services, Waseda rankings analyze the indicator of“Management Optimization”, which includes the evaluation of e-Government
development through development strategy. This is a very important factor and tends tolead to policy creation for the development of e-Government, rather than measures toimprove service quality. Besides the indicator “Management Optimization”, the Waseda
rankings have put Government CIO into the assessment model and consider it to be oneof the key factors for the success of e-Government in each country.
4Another important factor also mentioned in the Waseda e-Government ranking is“e-Government Promotion”. These are criteria that indicate and evaluate the activities of
the government in promoting the development of e-Government. In the Waseda
e-Government ranking, e-Government promotion is refer to legal frameworks andmechanisms (laws, legislations, plans, policies and strategies).
It is clear to see that this indicator only refers to the promotion of policies anddevelopment strategies, but does not mention the promotion of services throughmarketing policies. However, the sub-indicators of organization have not been fully
addressed, and the lack of planning from leadership, an important factor in
implementing e-Government.
The impact of e-Government is expressed at different levels from country tocountry. In developed countries, it focuses on promoting new online services andintroducing online services at the highest level to customers, while also seeking out new
trends in service development, applying new technical tools to build smarter
e-Government, using ICT for better management, aiming to maximize the government's
activities, and enhancing communication with customers over the Internet. In
developing countries, it is promoting service plans in these countries mainly focuses on
the implementation plans and e-Government roadmap for each year or for a certain
period, or on upgrading the network system by raising the proportion of Internet users
and broadband connections. In under-developed countries, it have focused on building
telecommunication infrastructure in order to increase the ability to connect to the global
Internet network, as well as the ability to internally connect between departments, suchas building networks for e-Government applications in the future.
Highlights for top 3 of overall ranking
Singapore:
As leading nation of e-government in Asia, Singapore continues to maintain the
momentum of evolvement. The performance on indicators of Management Optimization,
e-government promotion and cyber security are showing its strong points andadvancement this year. Especially on the efforts for cyber security, Singapore equips thelaw and regulation framework to assure every safety measure and security upgrade canbe enforced with legal basis. In respect to policy, National Cyber Security Masterplan
2018, as the latest strategy, guides government to enhance nation’s security environmentand create a robust and trusted society for public, private and individuals. Continuous
masterplans in each crucial segment are one of the keys to keep Singapore proactive andpossessing execution capacity on e-government development.
To future direction, Singapore still has potential on the growth of the use of
emerging technologies. This new indicator has been introduced to Waseda
e-government ranking this year. Due to the fact that many countries are still at the5start-up phase, direction for expanding the new technologies into public service sector
needs more endeavor to be clarified. Singapore could seize the opportunity to formulate
policies and standards, not only guide domestic innovation, but also delightinternational co-development.
United State of America:
Notable highlights include the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
portal, which allows applicants to check their immigration status instantly along withtypical wait times, and the Open Government Initiative. The USCIS portal isconsistently rated among the most accessed websites in the U.S. government, according
to the official Open Analytics counter.
On the local government front, sharing best practices can particularly improve theprovision of benefits for low-income individuals by state governments. Millions offederal dollars are spent annually on state or local IT that supports these services and theAdvance Planning Document (APD) process allows states to obtain approval for the
portion of the costs of acquiring new online systems that the federal government
contributes. The current system contains important mechanisms to hold statesaccountable for making smart choices about what systems are developed, but it may
also encourage siloed systems, which might add greater costs for later integration as
well as biasing states against migrating to solutions that could be more cost-effective inthe long term. To address this gap, The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
should work with relevant agencies to modernize the APD process to encourage
governments to develop enterprise-wide solutions.
Denmark:
Denmark has shown marked developments in e-government projects but there arefew available resources on e-Government related promotions particularly at the local
level. In 2005, the Danish authorities launched a large-scale communication campaign
to raise citizens’ awareness of e-government services. The OIO Committee forArchitecture and Standards (OIO Committee) has a mandate to support the strategy tofacilitate the work of e-government in the state, regions and municipalities, withparticular emphasis on ensuring interoperability between IT systems acrossorganizational boundaries. The government has released its e-government strategy
2011- 2015 on June 20, 2011 at the eGov Global Exchange in Singapore, even before
reaching the Danish public, according to Lars Frelle-Petersen, Deputy Director Generaland Head of the Digital Task Force Agency for Governmental Management, Danish
Finance Ministry. The government is thus looking at online services that are simpler andmore effective. This will be achieved through four goals: 1) Phase out paper
applications and regular mail 2) Help companies achieve higher growth rates 3) Bring‘welfare technologies’ into public schools, hospitals, nursing homes, providing better6welfare with more value for the money 4) Cooperate closely to digitize the public sector.
Furthermore, to promote Internet use in Denmark, The Danish Public Welfare
Technology Fund will allocate DKK 15 million to establish Internet hotspots in public
places. Institutions for education, knowledge or culture can apply for funds to provide
their users with free internet access. The funds will be used to prioritize Internet
connectivity and use. The government will also invest 500 million. DKK andmunicipalities will up to 1 billion. DKK tailoring teaching in public schools for futureneeds.

II. E-Government Ranking by Indicators
The Waseda – IAC International e-Government Ranking uses comprehensive
benchmarking indicators to accurately assess the latest developments of e-Government
in the major countries in ICT. In the process of evaluation, researchers found that
Information Technology is increasingly widely used in the activities of governments andthe applications of ICT have been applied to many fields in various sectors. Many
governments around the world are aware of the role of ICT in their administration andmanagement; they have applied ICT to deliver services to citizens, businesses and thegovernment itself, aiming to move traditional government towards an e-Government
model. The new trends of ICT play an increasingly important role in the shift fromtraditional government to smart governments. Therefore, based on these trends, the2016 ranking adopted one new indicator: “The use of emerging ICT” with threesub-indicators (the use of Cloud Computing, IoT, and Big Data) for evaluation. In total,
the 2016 ranking has ten main indicators with 35 sub-indicators.
Indicators

Sub-indicators

1. Network
Preparedness/Infrastructure

1-1 Internet Users
1-2 Broadband Subscribers
1-3 Mobile Cellular Subscribers
2-1 Optimization Awareness
2-2 Integrated Enterprise Architecture
2-3 Administrative and Budgetary Systems
3-1 E-Procurement
3-2 E-Tax Systems
3-3 E-Custom Systems
3-4 E-Health System
3-5 One-stop service
4-1 Navigation
4-2 Interactivity
4-3 Interface
4-4 Technical Aspects

2. Management Optimization/
Efficiency
3. Online Services / Functioning
Applications

4. National Portal/Homepage

5. Government CIO

5-1 GCIO Presence
5-2 GCIO Mandate
5-3 CIO Organizations
5-4 CIO Development Programs
7

6. e-Government Promotion

6-1 Legal Mechanism
6-2 Enabling Mechanism
6-3 Support Mechanism
6-4 Assessment Mechanism

7. E-Participation/Digital Inclusion

7-1 E-Information Mechanisms
7-2 Consultation
7-3 Decision-Making

8. Open Government

8-1 Legal Framework
8-2 Society
8-3 Organization

9. Cyber Security

9-1 Legal Framework
9-2 Cyber Crime Countermeasure
9-3 Internet Security Organization

10. The use of Emerging ICT

10-1 The use of Cloud Computing
10-2 The use of Internet of Things
10-3 The use of Big Data

Table 5: The Main Indicators and Sub-Indicators
This research not only evaluates the development of websites and ICT deployment
in governments, but also looks into real operations, such as management optimization,internal processes, online services, and new trends in e-Government development andthe relationship between governments and their stakeholders. The top ten e-Government
rankings by indicators are listed in table 6 below:
1
2
3
3
5
5
7
8
9
10

Network Prep.(10)Denmark
Singapore
Korea
SwedenBelgium
FinlandJapan
USA
Norway
UK

Score
7.9
7.6
7.5
7.5
7.4
7.4
7.3
7.2
7.1
7.0

1
2
3
4
4
6
6
8

Open Gov.(10)USA
Singapore
Denmark
CanadaNew Zealand
Korea
Japan
Taiwan

Score
9.6
9.5
9.4
9.3
9.3
9.2
9.2
9.0

8

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
9

Online Service(12)USA
Denmark
Singapore
Estonia
Australia
NorwayFinlandNetherlands
Japan
New Zealand

Score
11.3
11.2
11.1
10.9
10.8
10.5
10.3
10.3
9.9
9.9

1
2
3
3
5
5
7
8

Cyber Security(10)Singapore
New Zealand
Korea
EstoniaUSA
Denmark
Switzerland
UK

Score
9.8
9.4
9.3
9.3
9.0
9.0
8.8
8.5

8
8

UK
Finland

9.0
9.0

1
2
3
4
5
5
7
8
8
10

Mgt Optim(12)Denmark
Singapore
Korea
Japan
USA
Australia
Estonia
New Zealand
CanadaSweden

Score
11.8
11.7
11.6
11.5
11.4
11.4
11.3
11.2
11.2
11.1

1
2
2
4
5
6
6
6
9
9

CIO(10)Singapore
USA
Japan
Estonia
Denmark
New Zealand
Korea
CanadaGermany
UK

Score
9.4
9.1
9.1
8.5
8.4
7.9
7.9
7.9
7.8
7.8

1
2
3
4
5
6
6
8
9
10

Emerging Tech(8)
Korea
USA
Denmark
FinlandSingapore
NorwayIrelandSwedenJapan
Taiwan

Score
7.9
7.2
7.0
6.8
6.7
6.5
6.2
6.2
5.6
5.0

9
9

IsraelAustralia

8.4
8.4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
10

e-Participation(10)USA
Estonia
CanadaFranceUK
Italy
NorwayDenmark
Singapore
Iceland

Score
9.8
9.7
9.6
9.5
9.2
9.0
8.5
8.5
8.2
8.0

1
2
3
4
4
6
7
8
9
10

e-Promotion(10)SingaporeJapan
SwedenAustralia
Denmark
USA
Korea
TaiwanEstonia
Italy

Score
9.7
9.3
9.0
8.3
8.3
8.2
7.7
7.4
7.1
6.8

1
2
2
4
4
6
6
6
9
10

Portal(8)USA
Singapore
Denmark
UK
Estonia
UAE
Australia
CanadaIceland
New Zealand

Score
7.4
7.3
7.3
7.2
7.2
7.1
7.1
7.1
7.0
6.7

Table 6: List of Cores by indicators of Top Ten Countries

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III.
1.

Sectors Analysis

Network Preparedness/Digital Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure is an essential requirement for conducting data
communication from one access point to other points—from government's premises tothe citizens. Network preparedness becomes a necessity for effective e-Government
implementation. Different stages of infrastructure have long been available in many
countries and have become an important tool to connect citizens and enterprises withgovernment. In developing countries, the numbers of internet users, broadband
subscribers, and especially mobile cellular subscribers continue to rise.
Infrastructure for e-Government development is no longer confined to Internet
users, mobile subscribers or the number of broadband connections. Together with thedevelopment of ICT and the integration trends between local and center government, werecognize that the foundation for the development of e-Government in a country
depends on a backbone system. It is capable of connecting all bureau and departments
together via the core Government Backbone Network. There are three sub-indicators
under NIP: (1) Internet Users; (2) Broadband Users; and (3) Wired Broadband Users.
In 2016, the first place ranking for network preparedness was achieved by Denmark.
Denmark has come a long way since it made the decision to establish a modern, robust
digital infrastructure for the public sector. The current Danish e-Government strategy,
published in August 2011, is entitled “The Digital Path to Future Welfare:e-Government Strategy 2011-2015.” The strategy proposes that the central government,
regions and municipalities cooperate in order to accelerate the adoption of digitalsolutions in the public sector. The report emphasizes that the government must
capitalize on its leading position and continues to be a digital government leader wellinto the future.
2.

Management Optimization

This indicator reflects the utilization of ICT for improving government businessprocesses. The optimization should show the effort to integrate the silo of businessprocesses using ICT. Clear direction from the top is required to implement such
improvement and integration effectively and successfully. The roadmap of the
improvement process must be well-defined and acknowledged by all stakeholders. The
following sub-indicators constitute this indicator: (1) Optimization Awareness, (2)Government Enterprise Architecture, and (3) Integrated Administrative and Budgetary
System.
Topping the management optimization ranking are Denmark, Singapore, Korea,
Japan, USA, Australia, and Estonia. Estonia has launched the Digital Agenda 2020. The
ultimate goal of this agenda is not merely ICT use in daily life and business. The current
10plan emphasizes the improving economic competitiveness, the well-being of people andthe efficiency of public administration. Some priorities have been set on the agenda
such as completing a next-generation broadband network, generating greater control
over personal data, and utilizing data analytics in the public sector. In all, Estonia has
fully achieved the maximum score in the Management Optimization domain.
Contributions from the operationalization of X-Road are very significant in this area.
3.

Online Services/ Applications

E-service is the integration of business processes, policies, procedures, tools,
technologies, and human efforts to facilitate both assisted and unassisted customer
services using the Internet and other networks. Government provides services atdifferent levels: for various governments (government-to-government), for private
enterprises (government-to-business) and for citizenry (government-to-citizen).
Government-to-citizen service involves all the communication or transactions between
government, at various levels, and citizens. Now governments are developing the nextstage of e-government by establishing e-service infrastructure and organizational
capacity for constituents to transact official business online. There are five applications
under this indicator that are considered as flagships in e-government development.
These applications are as follow: (1) e-procurement; (2) e-Customs; (3) e-Tax; (4) One
stop services, and (5) e-Health.
The U.S. is in first place for Online Services. ICT in the U.S. continues to provide
new and innovative ways for U.S. citizen to interact, get involved and become
empowered. Public participation enhances the government’s effectiveness by improving
the quality of its decisions through collaboration. Innovative tools can be used to create
unprecedented openness in the Federal Government through increased citizen
participation and make this type of collaboration a reality.
In Singapore, most services have reached the transactional stage, allowing citizens
having two-way transactions with public agencies. However, the third party application
result (Google PageSpeed) has been introduced to Waseda-IAC international
e-Government ranking in 2016 to measure the portals’ speed in consideration of
convenience. There are still some improvements that could be achieved with the online
portals in Singapore.
4.

National Portal/Homepage

National portal is the foundation of e-Government and a basic interface forstakeholders to access government in an electronic way. In the public sector, this meansthat the government makes all services available via one portal. In e-Government
one-stop service means integrating all services and making them accessible via one
gateway. National portals offer many benefits to users for public services—from11citizens and businesses to the public administrators themselves—including faster,cheaper and superior services. Throughout eleven years of ranking, we noted that thenational portal helps to reduce costs, improves perceptions of government efficiency on
the part of citizens and also delivers benefits for both customers and government.
The National Portal of the US government is a gateway to improve thecommunication experience between the government and the public. Moreover, it
provides information that helps the public to better understand government structure.
The well-organized portal serves as a platform that assists the public to find desired
information. To improve users’ browsing experience, the portal also allows users tocreate government accounts that allow each individual user to customize the portal as
they desire. The website contains accessibility features, a live chat platform, and thechat feature is available every weekday except holidays. This provides a one-stop-shop
for all government information and services. It comprehensively lists all public services,
forms, tools and transactions that the government provides in a user-friendly manner.
The national portal of the UAE Government is part of the federal e-Government
program and a major milestone in the process of e-Transformation in the UAE. It is a
one-stop shops that brings all e-Services provided by the UAE federal and local
government bodies under one umbrella. The national portal contains all necessary
information for individuals, businesses, visitors, and government. It is a single
entry-point for users to access the different federal and local government e-Services.
The portal also serves to boost communication between customers and government
representatives and e-Participation through forums, blogs, surveys, polls and social
media.
5.

Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO)The Government CIO is the expert who has the mandate to align management
strategy with ICT investment in order to achieve a balance between the business strategy,organizational reform, and management reform; hence, the Government CIO is one of
the key factors in the success of e-Government implementation. The presence of Chief
information officers (CIOs) in government plays an important role in the success of
e-government. The exact title of the GCIO might differ among countries. The same
position with the same capacity can be named differently. However, the title CIO is
becoming very important since there is an increased need for international collaboration
to support CIO human resource development. There are four sub-indicators under
GCIO: (1) The presence of GCIO; (2) The mandate of GCIO; (3) The organization of
GCIO; and (4) The development program for GCIO.
In Japan, each central ministry has a CIO who is appointed among senior staff
within the ministry (mainly Director General of administration) and an assistant CIO
who is an expert recruited externally. The Federal CIO Council composed of Ministry12

CIOs has the authority to decide many rules on in-house ICT installation and online
services. The percentage of CIO appointments at the prefectural level is 90% and 85%
at the city level in 2015. The government established a Government CIO as a core of all
Ministry CIOs in November 2012.
In Germany, there is a growing impetus in the federal government in the area of
CIO in government. This is in conjunction with the government drive to optimize public
administration. In December 2007, the German cabinet agreed on a Federal IT strategy
aiming at improving IT management within the government. It recommends that eachgovernment department have a CIO with wide ranging powers. It also results in thecreation of an IT Council composed of CIO officials that will tackle Germany’s IT
strategy issues. This development resulted in high marks for Germany in this area of thesurvey. Cornelia Rogall-Grothe has been the German GCIO from 2010 to 2015.
In Singapore, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) plays therole of a Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) together with the“e-government owner” – the MOF. IDA is responsible for “master planning,project-managing and implementing various infocomm systems and capabilities for theGovernment”. To accomplish this mission, this organization supervises and manages IT
standards, policies, strategies and procedures for the Government as well as administers
the security and infrastructure of ICT. With the presence of IDA, Singapore government
is aiming to promote the role of CIOs in the public sector and to increase the successrate of Government IT projects. On January 2014 , IDA has appointed Mr. Chan Cheow
Hoe as the GCIO and Assistant Chief Executive of the Government Chief Information
Office / Government Digital Services. GCIO drives and oversees ICT initiatives tomaintain Singapore Government's leadership position as an innovative user of
infocomm technologies to delight customers and connect citizens. GCIO comprises thefollowing groups and functions: (1) Whole-of-Government (WOG) ICT Governance;(2) Whole-of-Government (WOG) ICT Infrastructure; (3) Government Digital Services;(4) Clusters, that work in partnership with public sector agencies to manage their ICT
function; (5) Strategy & Innovation; and (6) GCIO Corporate Development.
6.

E-Government Promotion

The e-Government promotion indicator is evaluated by using a comprehensive listof parameters which judge the degree of development in each sector as well as thecurrent status of e-Government promotion. This ranking includes activities supporting
the implementation of e-Government such as legal frameworks and mechanisms (law,legislation, plans, policies and strategies). In other words, these activities are carried out
by the government in order to support the development of e-services and in-house
operations. The sub-indicators under this indicator are as follow: (1) Legal Aspects; (2)Enabler; (3) Supporting Aspects; and (4) Assessment model.
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In Singapore, high-tech and informational society is one of the vital national goals.
Therefore government continues to pursue the evolution of e-government, not only
through continuous plans but also the relevant legal framework has been implemented
in recent years. Academic support including seminars and research centers on
e-Government and ICT utilization are active in Singapore. It ranked second in thisindicator among evaluated countries.
The digital interactions between the U.S. government, citizens, businesses,
employees and other governments have improved from couple of years ago. This clearly
springs from the efforts to develop and promote electronic Government services andprocesses by the establishment of an Administrator Office of Electronic Government
within the Office of Management and Budget. The promotion of the use of the Internet
and other information technologies to increase opportunities for citizen to participate
with the U.S. Government and promoting interagency collaboration providing electronic
Government services, where these collaborations would improve the services provided
to citizens by integrating related functions and the use of internal digital Government
processes. This e-Government promotion has reduced the costs and burdens forbusinesses and other government entities, not forgetting that people are better informed
regarding decisions made by policy makers

7. E-Participation/ Digital Inclusion
E-Participation is a term referring to ICT-supported participation in government andgovernance processes. Processes may concern administration, service delivery,
decision-making, and policy-making. Triggered by the advent of web 2.0 technologies,
it has come to the era of Government 2.0 powered by more convergence ofe-Government applications to public. This phenomenon shows the trend of internet
application to be more citizen-centric, including e-Government that introduce the
e-Participation. An e-Participation indicator is used to take into account the "demand"side of e-Government as well as to see to what degree people are using e-government
platforms especially in the light of Gov 2.0 mashups. The sub-indicators are as follow:(1) e-Information; (2) e-Consultation; (3) e-Decision making.
E-Government, in general, is not meant to be a direct support for democratic
practices. E-government is just one method to achieve better governance. While
democracy is only one of the final outcomes expected, it is not always necessarily thecase. Therefore, judging the success level of e-Government practices by using themeasurement of democracy can be misleading. Furthermore, e-participation cannot beviewed as representative of the whole e-government system. In fact, it is just a part ofe-government, using the electronic version of ordinary participation practice that ismainly supported by the Internet. E-participation is not the substitute of offline or any
other participation channels, such as face-to-face meetings. E-participation can be
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illustrated as a vehicle. It offers speed and convenience. But it's up to the government
how to drive it.
Culture and society in Estonia have been recreated as a high-tech society. These
factors have driven Estonia to the next horizon of e-Government. Citizens and thegovernment can benefit from ICT in their daily life. For instance, parliament members
have websites and provide citizens with an alternative channel to communicate. The
presence of an e-participation portal (osale.ee) contributes to the high achievement ofEstonia in this indicator.
In Canada, e-services, online services, online information and online citizen
engagement are organized by category and not on a department-by-department basis,
which makes them user-friendly and responsive to citizen demands. In order to gauge
the efficacy of their services, the government uses a unique Canadian outcomes analysis
approach called 'Citizens First' in the case of individuals and families, and “Taking Careof Business” in the case of companies, it enables everyone to use electronic services
very easily. The Government of Canada offers a variety of applications, accounts, tools
and services to allow citizens to complete tasks online.
8. Open Government Data
Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed byanyone—subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share sources. Opendata does not mean that a government or other entity releases all of its data to the public.
It would be unreasonable for the government to give out all of your private, personal
data to anyone who asks for it. Rather, open data means that whatever data is released isdone so in a specific way to allow the public to access it without having to pay fees or
be unfairly restricted in its use. Three sub-indicators are used to evaluate: (1) legal
framework; (2) society; and (3) organization.
Open Government Data evaluates the openness and transparency of governments.
The top ranking countries on this indicator have provided the citizens with anapplication programming interface (API) that could help developers and researchers tocreate innovative citizen-centric applications. There are a number of small scaleutilization cases and applications for smartphones and tablets.
According to Waseda e-Government ranking, providing Open Government Data is
fast becoming a major political objective and commitment in many countries.
Especially in Japan, the motivation of supporting economic growth and improving
public services, as well as to promoting government transparency and accountability
make it an attractive policy objective. While many governments are rushing to launch
political initiatives and online portals, the majority have yet to demonstrate the full
benefits of Open Government Data and to make the necessary preparations to realize
those benefits.
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Open Government Data is increasingly becoming an important concept in theapplications of ICT, in administration and management of government, and can beconsidered a core element in bringing government closer to citizens, and also helps
government be more transparent in all activities as well as minimize corruption. In orderto improve internal efficiency, the delivery of public services, or processes of
democratic governance. The usage of ICT can deliver the services and information to
citizens, effective interactions with business and industry, improving day by day ininternal processes as well as citizen empowerment through access to information. Open
Government Data is a way for public administration to become more open andtransparent, and to reinforce democratic participation.
New Zealand launched the Official Information Act to participate in the Freedom ofInformation Act movement around the world some time ago. To strengthen theimplementation of these acts, New Zealand has established Open Data Portal(https://data.govt.nz) to provide public with government information. To keep theinformation update, New Zealand government uses Data one.govt (Open Network
Environment) as a platform for data submission.
In the U.S. as a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's
administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, anduse datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides
descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access thedatasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue togrow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data were included in the firstversion of Data.gov. The site has undergone continuous improvements since then.
9.

Cyber Security

Cyber Security is the collection of tools, policies, security concepts, security
safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, trainings, best practices,
assurances and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment andorganization and user’s assets. Organization’s and user’s assets include connectedcomputing devices, personnel, infrastructure, applications, services, telecommunications
systems, and the totality of transmitted and/or stored information in the cyberenvironment. Cyber security strives to ensure the attainment and maintenance of the
security properties of the organization and user’s assets against relevant security risks inthe cyber environment. Legal framework, Cyber security countermeasures, and Internet
security organization are three sub-indicators to evaluate e-Government development.
In South Korea, the National Cyber Security Master Plan was released in 2011.
Since then, it has been viewed as the foundation to guide the nation’s cyber defense
strategy. Korea also has a solid legislation framework on cyber security such as: The
Information and Communication Infrastructure Protection Act 2001 (critical16

infrastructure protection); Act on Protection of Personal Information Maintained by
Public Agencies (1994); Electronic Transaction Basic Act (February 1999, into force on
1 July 1999); and so on.
Both KrCERT/CC and KN-CERT are considered as computer emergency response
teams in Korea Government. The Korea Internet and Security Agency is responsible for
network and information security. In addition, the National Cyber Security Center(NCSC) is the central point of government for identifying, preventing and responding tocyber-attacks and threats in Korea. The NCSC, in collaboration with the private sector
and the military sector, will improve warning systems and response time to security
incidents and protect critical national infrastructures in Korea. For raising awareness on
cyber security, the Korea Information Security Agency is responsible for online training
and broadcasting about the responsible use of the internet among users.
10. The Use of Emerging ICTThis indicator is the new indicator on the ranking. This indicator is aimed ataccommodating many countries, especially developed countries that have implemented
or examined the emerging technologies for improving e-Government quality. However,developing countries are expected to obtain an important score by implementing
state-of-the-art ICT for their e-Government. There are three emerging technologies on
government sectors that will be investigated. These technologies are as follows: (i) theuse of Cloud Computing, (ii) the use of Internet of Things, and (iii) the use of Big Data.
The United States government believes the security of computer systems isimportant to the world for two reasons. The increased role of Information Technology(IT) and the growth of the e-commerce sector have made cyber-security essential to theeconomy. Also, cyber-security is vital to the operation of safety critical systems, such as
emergency response, and to the protection of infrastructure systems, such as the national
power grid. Based on then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s testimony to the Senate ,in a year alone, the DHS U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
received more than 100,000 incident reports, and released more than 5,000 actionablecyber-security alerts and information products. Twitter, the Wall Street Journal, the New
York Times, and the Department of Energy and many other prominent companies havereported that their systems had been breached. Furthermore, classified government data
has been leaked to the press and the public in several high-profile cases. Current efforts
are being made to secure sensitive data to prevent future breaches.
In Finland, the Internet of Things was mentioned in the new Government Program
as a key project to coordinate the ministries' activities. This will be a joint effort bybusinesses and the public sector in order to “create a favorable operating environment
for digital services and new business models”. An implementation plan for leveraging

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big data and for piloting My Data will be drawn up (based on the Big Data Strategy of
the Ministry of Transport and Communications, 8/2014).
Norwegian government has started to implement Cloud Computing for running One
Government Private Cloud (OGPC). OGPC offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) for
government agencies. E-Government National Center maintains this Cloud Computing
Services. Other emerging technologies are still immature and no evidence to prove that
Brunei implemented Big Data and IoT.

IV.

E-Government Ranking by Organizations

1. Ranking of APEC Economies
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

No
1
2
4
5
7
8
9
10
21
24
30
31
33
34
38
43
45
46
48
52

APEC Economies
Singapore
USA
Korea
Japan
CanadaAustralia
New ZealandChinese Taipei
ThailandHK SAR
RussiaMalaysia
Indonesia
Chile
Philippines
MexicoVietnam
Brunei
China
Peru

Score
91.0
90.2
85.7
83.2
79.9
76.4
74.1
72.7
64.5
63.1
58.7
58.4
58.3
58.2
56.7
51.5
51.2
50.9
50.3
44.5

Table 7: e-Government Ranking in APEC Economies
In this group, the survey research covers 20 economies as in the previous years.
This group is divided between developed countries and developing countries. Leadingin the developed countries is Singapore in the first place, followed by USA in 2nd. South
Korea and Japan positions are 3rd and 4th respectively. Canada and Australia are 5th and6th while New Zealand kept its same place compared with last year at 7th. Topping thedeveloping countries in this group is Thailand, followed by Hong Kong in 10th.
As in the overall ranking, in this group Vietnam had the big regression and fell fiveslots from 13th last year to 17th in the 2016 ranking. Peru ranked at the bottom of thisgroup ranking. Chile jumped from 15th place in last year’s ranking to 14th place. In the18

2016 e-Government ranking, Chile is one of the top countries in Latin America in termsof Internet access.

2. Ranking of OECD Countries
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29

No
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
22
23
25
26
27
28
29
34
37
42
43

OECD Countries
USA
Denmark
Korea
Japan
Estonia
CanadaAustralia
New Zealand
UK
NorwayAustria
SwedenFinland
IcelandFranceNetherlands
Germany
Ireland
Belgium
Portugal
Switzerland
Israel
Italy
Spain
Czech
Chile
PolandTurkeyMexico

Score
90.2
89.7
85.7
83.2
81.8
79.9
76.4
74.1
72.7
70.0
69.6
68.0
67.6
67.3
67.3
65.7
65.1
64.8
64.0
63.8
63.0
61.9
61.5
60.6
59.7
58.2
56.8
52.3
51.5

Table 8: e-Government Ranking in OECD Countries
The 2016 ranking added Ireland as a new country. As Ireland is a member of OECD,
the addition increases the number of OECD countries to 29 in the Waseda-IAC ranking.
Most of the countries in the top ten of this group are also amongst the top ranked
countries in the overall world ranking. The leaders of group are the USA, Denmark,Estonia, Japan and South Korea. They tied for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place respectively,
followed by Canada at 6th, Australia at 7th and New Zealand at 8th. Two last countries inthe top ten are the United Kingdom and Norway.
In this group, the UK had a big regression, it dropped from 3rd in last year’s ranking
to number nine in the 2016 ranking. Despite a lower position than last year, most of19

indicators are at high score which reflects a well-developed e-government situation as
one of the countries with a high level of e-government development

V. E-Government Ranking by the Size of Population andGDP
1. Ranking in Big Population Countries (bigger than 100 million)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

No
2
5
30
33
35
38
43
47
48
62
65

Country(Economy)
USA
Japan
RussiaIndonesia
India
Philippines
MexicoBrazilChina
Pakistan
Nigeria

Score
90.2
83.2
58.7
58.3
57.8
56.7
51.5
50.5
50.3
39.7
35.0

Table 9: e-Government Ranking in Big Population Countries
There is little change in this group compared the ranking last year. The leaders of
this group are USA, Japan, and Russia. They are ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd placerespectively. The USA is very mature in e-Government and the U.S. government iscommitted to delivering public services. USA’s objectives are to fulfill the needs ofusers and achieve maximum value for the money of the taxpayers. Currently, the focus
is shifted to the productivity and effectiveness improvement by using ICT.
In the bottom of this group ranking is China, Pakistan, and Nigeria. They came at
9 , 10th, and 11th place respectively. Compared with other countries, China has acomparatively slow process on e-Government development. The absence of GCIO not
only pares down the scores for evaluation, but more importantly, has influenced theexecution of ICT plans in each government level. According to China’s strategy,
e-government has been regarded as a tool for administrative reform and government
process re-engineering rather than developing e-Government itself. Plenty of online
services remain below the phase of transaction, not to mention the lack of open
government data and e-decision making. However, some megacities in China havepromoted advanced e-service and data share process to citizens (For example Shanghai),
which continues to pull ahead the gap with underdeveloped areas. The gap of wealth has
affected every aspect of the societies in China, and the implementation of bettere-government is no exception.
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2. Ranking in Small Population Countries (Less than 10 million)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

No
1
3
6
9
12
13
14
15
16
20
24
25
26
32
39
40
41
46
51
58
59
63

Country(Economy)
Singapore
Denmark
Estonia
New Zealand
NorwayAustria
SwedenFinland
Iceland
IrelandHong Kong
Switzerland
IsraelMacau
Bahrain
UAE
Oman
Brunei
Lithuania
Uruguay
Costa Rica
Fiji

Score
91.0
89.7
81.8
74.1
70.0
69.6
68.0
67.6
67.3
64.8
63.1
63.0
61.9
58.3
55.5
54.8
53.4
50.9
45.3
41.1
40.9
38.3

Table 10: e-Government Ranking in Small Population Countries
Ireland and Lithuania are two new countries for evaluating the e-Government
ranking in 2016. These two countries belong to the group of small population countries
but they have a good ICT infrastructure for developing e-Government. It is the first year
for Ireland to enter the Waseda e-Government ranking, landing in the 20th position
among 65 countries. Scores on each indicator are balanced, and Ireland showed strength
in the indicators of “Online Service” and “Management Optimization”, which also are
the common strong points for top-20 countries. The one-stop service of Ireland(http://www.gov.ie/) tries to minimize the website to provide most of the informationand links to government agencies on simple options. It is also available for users tosearch information by 4 ordinary needs as “apply/find/complain/pay” on the first-levelpage. However, more general information could be added to the national portal for
non-Irish people to get known about the nation, in addition to the tourism website for
Ireland. With a good foundation of e-government plans and GCIO structures, Ireland
may make more progress on the e-government development.
Denmark has shown marked development in its e-government projects but there arefew available resources on e-Government related promotions particularly at the local
level. The government is thus looking at online services that are simpler and more
effective. This will be achieved through four goals: 1) Phase out paper applications andregular mail 2) Help companies achieve higher growth rates 3) Bring ‘welfare
21technologies’ into public schools, hospitals, nursing homes, providing better welfare
with more value for the money 4) Cooperate more closely to digitize the public sector.
3. E-Government Ranking in Top 10 Countries with biggest GDP in World
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

No
2
5
7
10
17
19
27
30
47
48

Country
USA
Japan
CanadaUK
FranceGermany
Italy
RussiaBrazil
China

Score
90.2
83.2
78.3
72.7
67.3
65.1
61.5
58.7
50.5
50.3

Table 11: e-Government ranking with biggest GDP Group
China is the second biggest economy in the world, but in terms of e-Government, itremained in 10th place, the same as last year. The USA is at the top of this group,
followed by Japan in 2nd and Canada is 3rd. France and Germany exchanged positions
compared to the ranking last year; they were 5th and 6th respectively. In the bottom of
this group ranking consists of familiar names from last year, such as Russia, Brazil, andChina.
As one of the most advanced e-government nations, Japan stayed in the top 5 of theoverall ranking and in 2nd place in this group. As mentioned above, the Japanese
government has built a sophisticated promotion system for e-government initiatives andprecise GCIO regimes into every rank of government (Central and local government;
different government agencies) to assure the effective implementation and evaluation of
e-government initiatives.
In this group, Brazil is one of the biggest, in both population and area. Therefore, toprovide e-services to all citizens is required to set up a good infrastructure, now low
awareness of e-government services is a barrier preventing its effective use. It can beestablished that this is also an obstacle to the assessment of citizen demand. One of thechallenges is that citizens with higher levels of education get more easily acquainted
with new ICT tools and access e-Government services. Besides, education constitutes afundamental requirement to enable citizenship and as a consequence for theadvancement of e-Government.

VI.

E-Government Ranking by Regions

1. Ranking in Asian Countries
No Country(Economy)

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Score

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

1
4
5
8
9
10
21
24
31
32
32
35
38
45
46
48
62
63

Singapore
Korea
Japan
Australia
New ZealandTaiwan(Chinese Taipei)
ThailandHong Kong
Malaysia
Macau
Indonesia
India
Philippines
Vietnam
Brunei
China
Pakistan
Fiji

91.0
85.7
83.2
76.4
74.1
72.7
64.5
63.1
58.4
58.3
58.3
57.8
56.7
51.2
50.9
50.3
39.7
38.3

Table 12: e-Government Ranking in Asian Countries
In 2016, the Waseda e-Government ranking kept the number of country in the Asia
at 18 countries, the same as last year. Not much changed in the top of the groupcompared with last year. Singapore, Japan and Korea remain the leading countries inthis group in terms of e-Government development. During this year of assessment, we
could not find major significant activities related to e-Government issues.
The Macau SAR government has strived to simplify the administrative procedures
and optimize public services through continuous e-government plans in different phases.
Administrative effectiveness and efficient governance reform have always been criticaltasks for e-government in Macau.
2. Ranking in Americas Countries
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

No
2
7
34
43
47
50
52
55
56
58
59

Country
USA
CanadaChile
MexicoBrazilArgentina
Peru
Columbia
Venezuela
Uruguay
Costa Rica

Score
90.2
79.9
58.2
51.5
50.5
46.2
44.5
42.0
41.9
41.1
40.9

Table 13: e-Government Ranking in Americas Countries
In 2016, this group had only a small change in the e-Government ranking between
Peru and Colombia. They exchanged their positions compared to the ranking last year.
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In American countries, the gap in scores (digital divide) between the leader country andthe bottom country in the group ranking is very wide. This shows that the gap of thedigital divide is increasingly widening among countries in the region.
Colombia has participated in several international efforts to improve e-Government
in the Americas. For example, it has offered many candidates for excelGOV awards,
and generally participated in regional and international working groups at a rate higher
than its neighboring nations. Though it still has much room for improvement in terms ofrankings, Colombia is poised to continue on its upward trajectory and make some
important advances in the coming years.
Chile has achieved its e-Government success due to three main factors: acontinuous long-term strategy, efficient policy-making and its modern socioeconomic
qualities. Unlike other countries in the region, Chile began designing its long-term
e-government policy plans by the early 2000s, when its first webpage for official
procedures, “Easy Errand,” was created. By 2004, Chile had designed its first Digital
Agenda to start with a continuous process that would lead up to today’s 2013-2020.
3. Ranking in European Countries
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

No
3
6
10
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
22
23
25
27
28
29
36
37
51

Country
Denmark
Estonia
UK
NorwayAustria
SwedenFinland
IcelandFranceNetherlands
Germany
Ireland
Belgium
Portugal
Switzerland
Italy
Spain
Czech
Romania
PolandLithuania

Score
89.7
81.8
72.7
70.0
69.6
68.0
67.6
67.3
67.3
65.7
65.1
64.8
64.0
63.8
63.0
61.5
60.6
59.7
57.2
56.8
45.3

Table 14: e-Government Ranking in European Countries
In this group for the 2016 ranking, the survey research added two new European
countries and now the number of countries in this group is 21. Europe is largely madeup of developed countries with high per-capita incomes and a wealth of humanresources. With regards to e-Government development, EU countries are encouraged to24

deploy advanced technologies, institute better governance and e-services while
simultaneously pursuing greater transparency, efficiency and inclusion.
It is the first time for Ireland to be evaluated in the Waseda e-Government ranking
with a good position at 12 in this group and 21 in the overall ranking. Compared withother European countries, Ireland had better performance on the indicator ofManagement Optimization, E-Government Promotion, E-Participation and Emerging
Technologies. The Government of Ireland has regarded the merging ICT as methods toreform public service, the key element of public service’s ICT strategy. A Cloud
Computing Strategy has been made to support the reform, to engage with Cloud
Computing and to undertake a comprehensive program of Data Centre Consolidation.
Considering Ireland’s efforts to promote open data, there should be more related legal
framework and Data management integrated into the government’s official departments.
The Lithuanian government continues to consider e-Government development ahigh priority. Despite the country’s relatively small size in GDP and population, it hasestablished a useful and user-friendly online presence for itself, which shows signs ofimproving in the days ahead.
4. Ranking in Africa, Middle East and CIS Countries
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

No
26
30
39
40
41
42
44
49
53
54
57
60
61
64
65

Country(Economy)
IsraelRussiaBahrainUAE
Oman
TurkeyKazakhstan
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Tunisia
Georgia
MoroccoKenya
Egypt
Nigeria

Score
61.9
58.7
55.5
54.8
53.4
52.3
51.4
49.4
44.1
44.0
41.5
40.7
40.4
36.8
35.0

Table 15: e-Government Ranking in Africa, Middle East and CIS Countries
This group includes 6 countries from Africa, 5 countries from the Middle East and4 countries from CIS. The 2016 ranking did not add any new countries from theseregions. Leading this group is Israel, followed by Russia in 2nd, Bahrain in 3rd, the UAE
in 4th, and Oman in 5th. Compared to the ranking last year, their scores in 2016 are lower
even the number of main indicator increases to 10. 3 Africa countries at the bottom of
the ranking in this group are also 3 countries ranked at the bottom of overall ranking:Kenya, Egypt, and Nigeria. They were 13th, 14th, and 15th respectively.
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Among the ten indicators in the current ranking, the National Portal andManagement Optimization are the best among other indicators in e-Government
Bahrain. This achievement signifies the importance of the new e-Government Strategy
2017 for improving the quality of government business process. Bahrain implements
several best practices for developing e-Government systems. Enterprise Architecture isadopted to develop Bahrain National Enterprise Architecture Framework. COBIT 5 isapplied for designing IT Governance Framework.
Compared to 2015, Kenya escaped from the bottom of the ranking and jumped to
13 in the ranking of this group and 60th in the 2016 overall e-Government ranking.
Kenya has the impressive point on Management Optimization, Online Service, andE-Participation. The Kenya Vision 2030 is the national long-term development policythat aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrializing, middle-income country
providing a high quality of life to all its citizens by 2030 in a clean and secureenvironment. But the field of GCIO, the use of emerging technology and e-Government
Promotion are the weak point of Kenya.
thVII. Highlights
1. Ageing Societies and e-Government
As both developed and developing countries around the world are now discovering,societies are now ageing at an alarming level. Some, like Japan, are facing an
unprecedented increase in the proportion of seniors to the working age population.
Others, like the United States, face situations that do not appear so alarming whenlooked at proportionally (thanks to immigration and higher birth-rates), but will still
have to deal with a record-shattering number of aging seniors in real number terms.
(Bloom et al., n.d.) No matter what the proportions look like, the increasing number ofaging citizens poses a significant and substantial problem to countries around the world.
Despite the seriousness of this problem, there is some optimism that thesechallenges can be met through the strategic use of ICT applications. As more and more
everyday tools, tasks, and operations are digitized, governments gain a whole new set of
options to use to improve the lives of their aging citizens. Below is a few of theemerging technologies and ICT applications that will make a difference in seniors’ lives
in the coming years.
Governments are still hard at work, making plans as to how to deal with the Ageing
problem. At the 2015 White House Conference on Aging in July, several public andprivate initiatives were announced. The federal government launched Aging.gov, aportal administered by U.S. Health and Human Services that collects the most relevant
information and services for seniors in one web portal. Initiatives like this are occurringaround the world, as policymakers are realizing the extent of the challenges and26

opportunities that these new demographic realities offer. Naturally, many of them areturning to new technological innovations as one of the most promising tools available.
2. E-Government service quality as new Evaluation model
Many governments around the world are aware of the role of ICT in theiradministration and management; they have applied ICT to deliver services to citizens,businesses and the government itself, aiming to move traditional government towards
an e-Government model. E-Government represents a paradigm shift from traditional
government and its evolution happens in stages: it begins with the establishment of a
web presence, matures to interaction through email or other electronic media, and isfollowed by the development of business logic infused with front-end applications.
Finally, the process ends with the integration of governmental activities beyond the webinterface.
The aims and nature of the transition from government to e-Government and theapplications of ICT in administration and management, e-Government refer toimproving the quality of services for citizens, businesses and organizations, as well asdelivering services to citizens in an easier and more convenient way.
Like other traditional services, the quality of electronic service is the mostimportant requirement of users. Some researchers suggest that price is a pivotal quality
indicator in situations where other information is not available, but for most people, thequality of service is the top priority when using a service. In recent decades, this issue
has become a major area of academic investigation. Regarding this issue, there has beena great deal of research evaluating the dimensions of e-Service contexts. Service quality
has been considered from many different perspectives and is based on many aspects,
such as service performance, customer perspective, and the perception of service or
customer expectations.
There is no overall model that covers the general concepts in the evaluation,
especially for specific types of services, such as e-Government (e-Government model).
E-Government has developed in most countries, but the level of development differsfrom country to country. Developed countries tend to focus on promoting new online
services and introducing online services at the highest level to customers, while also
seeking out new trends in service development, applying new technical tools to build
smarter e-Government, using ICT for better management, aiming to maximize thegovernment's activities, and enhancing communication with customers over the Internet.
2016 Waseda e-Government ranking shows that: United States and Denmark are
two countries in the top of overall ranking. There are some reasons which made thesecountries in the top of ranking, but one of them is that they have very good e-services tocommunity.
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3. The impact of national policy to the development of e-Government at local
level
R. Heeks categorizes e-Government into five levels: International, National,
Regional, State/Provincial and Local government. Local governments are the main
point of contact for delivery of services where 50% to 80% of citizens’ interactions withpublic bodies occur. However, despite its importance, the implementation of local
e-Government has remained problematic not only in developing countries but also inadvanced economies. Reviewing relevant research reveals that most research anddesigned models have focused on national and state-level e-Government practices, withfew studies focusing on local e-Government. For many years, Australia and United
Kingdom are two countries that have achieved high positions on the Waseda- IAC
e-Government ranking.
Australia is governed through a three-tier system, represented by federal, state andcity governments that works within a parliamentary system of democracy. There aretotal 562 local governments, with broad variety in geographic sizes and population.
Australians e-Government adoption efforts have been clarified under the 2012-2015
e-government strategy. It shows that Australians continue to embrace the Internet as away of interacting with government. The National Digital Economy Strategy was
published on 31 May 2011 emphasized on the mission to position Australia as a leading
digital economy by 2020. Drawing upon this vision, a collection of policies, strategies
and guidelines were published by Ministry of Finance and Deregulation and AustralianGovernment Information Management Office (AGIMO), pursuing to make Australia
government becoming an effective government; seeking to reduce costs, increasecustomer satisfaction and promote innovation.
Being the largest local government area in the world with a large diversity ingeographic, demographic, and population, Australian local authorities are struggling todevelop and implement e-government practices for increasing citizens’ engagement due
to insufficiently skilled human resources or lack of funding. For example in Western
Australia State, there are cities such as Shire of East Pilbara which spans more than
370,000 square kilometers and is home to just over 8,000 habitants. In this instance,
local governments are unlikely to have sufficient resources to ensure citizen access to
the Internet and to develop e-government practices.
In addition, local governments in Australia have limited authority, with their
responsibilities mainly constrained to day-to-day services. In order to develop
e-government services relating to such as health or education, local governments arehighly depended on the state government’s funding resources. Meanwhile,
e-government in Australian local levels is currently proceeding independently fromfederal guidance, with ICT initiatives frequently implemented without guiding policy
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documentation from national government level. This leads to a huge diversity ine-government service practices amongst Australian local governments.
UK local government is structured in two ways. In Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland there is a single-tier council which is responsible for all local authority functions.
The remaining of England has a two-tiered level of local government comprising
district and county councils. In total, there are 464 councils in England and Wales withsome 10,000 parish and town councils across the UK.
The United Kingdom stressed in its “Government Digital Strategy” that all services
should be “digital by default”, which means all transactions with citizens and businesses
will be delivered through digital channel. Building upon over a decade of experience of
implementing online services the strategy points out how government services are
expected to become ‘digital-by-default’. It estimates that moving services from off-line
to digital channels will save between £1.7 and £1.8 billion a year.
The UK has its own advantages in pursuing e-Government practices at the local
government level. The UK government launched a modernization program to transform
local authorities’ performance across the UK. This new agenda has led to the executionof electronic government at the local level across the UK. National policies such as the
National Strategy for Local E-Government offer a holistic framework with broad
contexts and requirements for development government at local level. The UK has beendeveloping a national strategy together with supporting mechanisms in standards,
organizations, and infrastructure for local e-Government, making it a country with ahigh level of local e-Government implementation. Based on a survey of the impact ofnational policy, 83 percent of UK local authorities stated that the national strategy
directly influenced improvements on service delivery, and 64 percent stressed that thepolicy impacted public engagement in local decisions.
It can be seen from above scenarios that an advanced national e-government level
does not always guarantee the success at the local level. From the case studies ofAustralia and UK, it is believed that the cooperation of different levels is essential for
e-government development at local levels. Meanwhile, the inaccessibility of citizens to
ICT infrastructure such as broadband network is the main cause that hinders the
e-government development process.
4. E-Government for combating corruption
Many scholars have long acknowledged e-Government as a tool for combatting
corruption. E-Government, according to the World Bank definition, is the use ofInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) in government institutions totransform interactions with citizens, business enterprises, and other public bodies. The
transformation is aimed to improve the quality of public service delivery. These29

transformations are referred to using three notations: G2C for Government to Citizens,
G2B for Government to Business and G2G for Government to Government.
Many government institutions use Information and Communication Technology(ICT) to improve the quality of government business processes in terms of time,
accuracy, and information distribution. The accuracy, which covers relevance,
recentness, and reliability, is one of the elements of accountability. Furthermore, using
ICT, governments are able to disseminate information broader and faster than without
ICT. As a result, more people will get more information from government andthe-Government will become more transparent to the public. Enhancement intransparency and accountability will reduce corruption as formulated in the following
equation.
Corruption = Monopoly + Discretion –Transparency/Accountability
In words, the equation explains that the corruption occurred in a situation where
there is a monopoly on goods and services allocation power and there is a discretion
power on the authority of allocating the goods and services. Assuming that themonopoly and the discretion are admissible by law and ceteris paribus, a control andmonitoring mechanism are become necessity to moderate the practice of monopoly andthe use of discretion. An effort to increase a control and monitoring capacity requires anextent of transparency. Transparency enables citizens to collect information fromgovernment in order to monitor government performance.
There is no doubt that e-Government has the potential to reduce corruption.
E-Government enables government to increase the level of efficiency and effectivenessthrough streamlining the process, reducing the red tape, and diminishing improper
negotiations. Through e-Government, governments are more transparent to the publicby disclosing government-related information publicly. Furthermore, e-Government
allows citizens and business enterprises to gain more control on processes related to
public service delivery, thus minimizing an asymmetric information gap between
government officers and stakeholders. Obviously, e-Government depends on theavailability of Internet access to pursue a high level of transparency. A country withhigh Internet penetration will have greater e-Government implementation. As aconsequence, such countries are most likely countries with low corruption.
As part of our investigation on e-Government development around the world, we
found some interesting facts on the use of e-Government for reducing corruption. This
article will briefly describe e-Government systems in some countries that without doubt
eliminate corruption cases in the country both developed and developing countries.
Transparency as well as Accountability is the soul of e-Government for combating
corruption. Transparency is not only for citizens but also for business enterprises and30other government agencies. The formulation among those transparencies will
significantly increase the performance of e-Government for combating corruption.
5. The usage of emerging technologies in e-Government
Waseda e-government ranking has added a new indicator as the tenth benchmark
this year, evaluating the use of emerging technologies in e-government development.
Three technologies: Cloud computing, Internet of things and big data are chosen to beobserved, including the strategy, regulation and implementation of them into the public
sectors. The conceptions of these technologies have arisen for years, arousing heateddiscussion in business area. Complying with the trend, government agencies attempt tocollaborate with enterprises and industries to rough out the future vision utilizing newtechnologies. Smart nations or smart cities in the municipal level, are the examples ofmultiple technique applications. E-government also has to expand the range accordinglywith change of era, adopting burgeoning technologies to the continuous transformationof government.
Throughout governments’ progress, developed countries have seized the moment
to improve the quality of public services by introducing emerging technologies. One of
the evident cases is the practice of utilizing big data in open government initiatives.
Citizens may have heard about the terms of big data, open data or open government a
million times, but still remaining confused about the goods from what they could bringto their normal lives. Big data includes massive information from different sources, but
not all of them useful for the public; meanwhile, government sectors have controversial
issues about choosing the appropriate and reasonable data to release to the public.
Though there are organizations over the world trying to reach a common standard foropen government data, political and security concerns are bristled with in specificnations. The technology of big data may continue to mature, but the patterned
operations in the public sector could need more time to fumble, especially in the
countries with slow legislations. In consideration of the sensitive matters about data
disclosure system (the abuse of private and personal data, security problem, etc.),
participating actors press for permission from regulations and policies to initiate new
business. With government’ guidance, society could make flexible use of abundant data
to develop vital career; otherwise the opportunities could slip away in a twinkling. On
the other hand, a timely regulation could normalize the usage of big data or open data,
which eliminating scandal and public’s doubt about new technologies and secureconcerns. After all, civilian usage is the key point for public data utility.
Releasing large government datasets to the public has been considered to stimulateinnovation and social development. For the governments, it is also hard to resist thetemptation in which there are inestimable economic potentials. Delivering preferable
public service to citizens may be the main reason for adopting emerging technologies in31

e-government plan; the following economic achievement after employment has been
expected as well. During the observation of each economy, not a few governments havefounded their open data site, by which the information of each sections of society areshared with citizens and industries. From the basic demographic information to specificdatasets of tax, health and other social contents. There are several kinds of ways tosystemize the database; people can search for the data by catalogues, needs, objectives
or their identities. However, only a few portals provide the particular manual for users
to acquaint with the system. The guideline should not only introduce the platform andthe methods, but also explain how the datasets benefit their work and life. Certainly,
comparing with general citizens, industries and academies have proficiency in usage.
For citizens, public open data site may satisfy their curiosities and enable them tounderstand the nation and government. But more importantly, citizens can obtainknowledge or innovational chances by analyzing the data; they can supervise publicagencies, which according with the slogan “openness and transparency” of government;
taking full advantage of big data could produce democratic value as well. Governments’duty is to do more than just free the information, but also help citizens to make the bestuse of affluent resources. Therefore, in addition to legislative preparedness, government
should draw up to provide citizens a comprehensive guidance about emerging
technologies adopted for public services.
To citizens, the terms of “Internet of things” sounds fashionable and easy tounderstand. Nevertheless, it is comparatively not easy to realize its application ingovernment services. People may enjoy the convenience that IoT has brought to theirlives, accepting the employment of the technology readily. For government, thedifficulty is to establish the standards---for infrastructure, devices and network, etc. Also,
policy framework would facilitate the development of IoT into interoperable services.
There could raise more emerging technologies in our information society, so should
our e-government update and reform along with the changes. Waseda e-government
ranking has kept improving the benchmark to catch up innovative dynamic ingovernment area with the latest ICT achievements. One of the essentials of
e-government is receiving new technologies relentlessly and never stopping evolving.
For government agencies, regulation preparedness and comprehensive explanations arenecessary for delivering to public. Besides, collaborating with progressive enterprises
with technical advantages is a conclusive way to foster the scope. But to e-government,
PPP is an excellent method. Serving the citizens and delivering best public services are
the fundamental purpose, by which e-government should always abide.
6. E-Government development trend and issues of Least Developed Countries
In Least Developed Countries (LDCs), ICT is known to be one of the important
tools, which can be used to eradicate poverty. However, there are many cases where ICT
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falls short of being used effectively to solve socio-economic issues in those countries,
where investment on the infrastructure often takes place before a sufficient study of ICT
policies and strategies is conducted. In most cases, the construction of the infrastructure
is financially and technically supported by international organizations and foreigncountries. Although many ICT projects failed to be utilized effectively, while the ICT
infrastructure has yet to cover throughout the country, many still surge for betterchanges by using ICT. However, the expansion of the network in an unprofitable region,such as a rural area, is the issue. Moreover, there are also difficulties on building humanresources for the ICT sector as well. There are many cases where the image of therequired personnel is unclear. In the course of building the human resources, the specificneed of the industrial sectors has to be taken into consideration; this as well is tostimulate/encourage the commitment from private sectors. Meanwhile, because ICT canmake big changes to the traditional work style, many people in the developing countries
has a strong resistance to accept its introduction to their work. Therefore, it is very
important to give a clear understanding regarding the goals and merits of shifting to ICT.
And at the same time, training for the usage of ICT is also essential.
E-Government is an important theme for informatization in LDCs. The promotion
to implement and realize the e-Government has always been raised as vital contents by
the government. This theme is the pivotal core of the informatization in government
sectors. The approaches and the goals of e-Government vary for each country’s
government. However, whether it be the developed countries or the developing
countries, e-Government is aimed to provide high quality administrative services to thepeople by using ICT to “improve the effectiveness of the administrations” to “achieve
high-speed administrative procedures” and at the same time “providing theadministrative information” while making “direct participation by the citizen regarding
political policies” possible, to become the trust-worthy and better political entity. In
order to “improve the administrative services” by using ICT, 1) Efficiency improvementof the administrative work; 2) Information publication; 3) Support of democratization;and 4) Preparation of legal systems have to be achieved.
7. Mobile Government in transition
The digital divide between developed and developing countries is a persistent issue,
which includes many factors such as infrastructure and human capital building. In
addition, the divisive is influenced by the social economic and political environments.
The development of e-Government in developing countries is affected by the digital
divide, including the performance on running e-Government projects. However,developing countries can use ICT to firmly grasp the chance to pursue their goals
especially for the digital divide in the practical conditions of society. M-government canbe considered one approach that may possibly spread across the world, especially indeveloping countries.
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Mobile-Government, sometimes referred to as m-Government, is the extension of
e-Government to mobile platforms, as well as the strategic use of government services
and applications which are only possible using cellular/mobile telephones, laptop
computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and wireless internet infrastructure.
Mobility is no longer a technological revolution. It is more about how businesses
and governments can provide a better social infrastructure through mobile applications
and services. Adoption of mobility, therefore, is an indispensable asset for the public
sector in meeting the demands of citizens. While e-Government is an important steptaken by many governments, the provisions of services through mobile technologies isnow becoming compulsory. M-Government emerges as the next big wave in the process
of ICT use in the public sector even if supplemented activities to e-Government.
Mobile-Government is primarily concerned with the study of these major social andtechnological changes in the public sector.
Mobile communications are widely used to ensure communications and data
capturing for emergency services as well as for utility services in various sectors, suchas housing, civil engineering, drainage and postal delivery services. However in thesefields, mobile technology has been used for a long time, but the advent of the term
“m-Government” is related to public services that are provided to citizens via handheld
terminal equipment. M-Government services can be classified in 8 categories: (1)m-Communication; (2) m-Transactions; (3) m-Voting; (4) internal m-Government
issues; (5) location based services (LBS); (6) m-Government for transportation; (7)m-Education; and (8) m-Health.

VIII. Methodology
1. Outline
To evaluate e-Government development in a country, this ranking survey is basedon group of sub-indicators to evaluate the overall e-Government development in acountry, ranging from policy development and e-Services implementation to
management optimization and e-Government promotion. To improve the evaluation of
e-Government development in a country, from 2010, the ranking added an
e-participation indicator. In 2014, Open Government Data and Cyber Security were also
added to the ranking. In the 2016 ranking survey, the research team added “the usage of
emerging ICT technologies”. It makes a total 10 main indicators for evaluation.
Therefore, methodology is based on 10 main indicators and it divided into thesesteps:-

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searches all information relate to the questions (web search) and put score foreach question-

Each country is evaluated by conductor and the result (score) is checked byeditor. A first draft of score is called score 0-

Score 1 are reviewed by experts through expert group meeting. Normally,
expert group meeting has two meeting per year. The result from expert groupmeeting is called score 1 for each country.

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To improve accuracy and independence of the study. The research team sends
questionnaires to government employees (officers) who are responsible and in
charge of e-Government services in the country to be evaluated. The
questionnaire is discussed in detail in section 2. The detailed score in thissection is considered the 2nd score for the country. From the results and dataobtained in this step, the research team conducted a comparison between score
1 and scores 2, in order to find the most accurate scores.

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This score is reviewed by expert group meeting again before issuing the finalscore for each country.

To increase the quality, the assessment used a questionnaire as a tool to obtain some
information from respondents who reside in the respected countries. The respondents
are government officers who work for a ministry that concerns e-Government and, tosome extent, respondents from academia who are knowledgeable in e-government. The
questionnaire in the upcoming ranking is mandatory. The score will use the feedback asadditional information to mitigate the sample risk, thus, reducing bias during scoring.
The following diagram shows the due process of creating the ranking.
Waseda-IAC International e-Government ranking is also based on clustering
methods by classifying countries according to the group, which has been demonstrated
by organizations (APEC, OECD), by the size of population and GDP, by regions(Asia-Pacific, Americas, European, Africa, Middle East and CIS countries).
2. Sample of Questionnaires to Government Officers and experts
2.1 National e-Government Development Strategy
Please describe briefly the current national e-government development strategy in yourcountry. The description may contain the answer of following questions:-

Which ministry holds the responsibility to ensure the achievement of the strategy?
What are the vision and the mission of the current strategy?
What is the title of the National e-Government Development Strategy? For example: Digital
2020.
If the strategy document is available on the Internet, please provide us with the URL for it.

2.2 Current status of Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO)
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Please describe the current situation of GCIO in your country. Whether all government offices
have GCIO or not.
- If government offices in your country have GCIO, what is the role of GCIO? What is theregulation regarding the GCIO mandate?
If there is any information regarding the presence of GCIO, please provide us with the URL
for it2.3 Evaluation process of E-Government
Please describe briefly a process of evaluating e-government project.
Some highlight would be as follow-

Whether there are some agencies responsible for evaluating a national e-government
project or not
Whether the evaluation process is conducted periodically or ad-hoc activity.

Please provide us with the URL that explains e-Government evaluation process

2.4 Cyber Security Infrastructure
Please describe briefly some regulation and infrastructure in your country regarding Cyber
Security, including How to countermeasure the cyber-attack. Infrastructure may containinstitutional capacity and secured technology infrastructure.
Please provide us with the URL for relevant information

2.5 Utilization of Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, and Big Data in
Government
Please describe briefly about the use of the emerging technology in government sectors; The
use of Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Big Data.
A brief explanation on some experiences of government institution in implementing thosetechnologies are highly appreciatedIf your country has adopted the use of those technologies, please inform the relevant
regulations.
Please provide us with the URL for relevant information

3. SWOT Analysis
The SWOT analysis is great for developing an understanding of an organization orsituation and decision-making for all sorts of situations in business, and organizations.
The SWOT analysis approach headings provide a good framework for reviewing
strategy, position and direction of a company, product, project or person (career). Doing
SWOT analysis can be very simple, however its strengths lie in the flexibility andexperienced application of SWOT analysis.
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One of the methods which Waseda e-Government ranking based on is SWOT
analysis. The evaluation and analysis of e-Government development in one country is
also expressed through SWOT analysis, especially, for the application of ICT inmanagement and administration in public sector. In Waseda-IAC e-Government ranking,
SWOT analysis is expressed and mentioned through country reports.
4. Data Analysis
The basis scoring for web search is aggregation. However, the aggregation does not
apply to Network Infrastructure Preparedness (NIP). NIP uses Average method in which
the score of NIP is the average of Internet User, Fixed Broadband User, and WirelessBroadband User Score that are produced from ITU Report.
The score for main indicator is the aggregation of respected sub-indicators. The
score of sub-indicator is the aggregation of respected items. The score of item is basedon the result of web search according to the rule mentioned in section A.IV of thisdocument. This process generated the Original Score (Score 0). At this time, the Score 0
is copied to the Score 1.
Score 1 could be modified through a peer-review process by the second assessor.
Doing the same procedure, the second assessor will put the adjusted score to the Score 1.
The average of Score 0 and Score 1 will result the Raw Score.
The Raw Score is normalized to the 0-100 scale score using the following formula.

=

× 100

Raw Score is the Score generated by averaging the Score 0 and Score 1
MaxScore is the maximum score of the sub-indicators
This will generate the Normalized Score which ranges 0 – 100. Furthermore, theNormalized Score is recalculated by weighted rate. The result is the released score thatwill be used as the source for arranging the rank.
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4
5
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7
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Indicators
Network Infrastructure Preparedness (NIP)
Management Optimization (MO)Online Services (OS)National Portal (NPR)
Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO)
E-Government Promotion (EPRO)
E-Participation (EPAR)
Open Government Data (OGD)
Cybersecurity (CYB)

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2016
NormScore X 10%
NormScore X 12%
NormScore X 12%
NormScore X 8%
NormScore X 10%
NormScore X 10%
NormScore X 10%
NormScore X 10%
NormScore X 10%

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The emerging technology in e-government (EMG)

NormScore X 8%

Table 16: List of main Indicators
5. Experts Group Meetings
During one year of evaluation, there were two meetings to discuss the 2016
e-Government ranking. The first meeting was held in Tokyo from Sept 28-29, 2015 in
the 2nd APEC e-Government Forum and IAC 10th Anniversary Event. In this meeting,the research team presented the processes of evaluation, summary the new trends for
ICT and e-Government development, the number of countries for evaluation as well as
the main indicators in the ranking. The meeting covered the idea of measuring user
perception on e-government implementation as an indicator to make the ranking morebalanced. Since it is difficult to involve citizens in the countries to measure user
perception, the survey will collect the information from GCIO, professional, academia,
and documents such as newspapers and journals.
In the first meeting, all experts agreed (1) to add two new countries to the ranking,Ireland and Lithuania. (2) One new indicator was added so that the 2016 ranking would
use ten indicators. The new indicator is the use of emerging technology in
e-Government; cloud computing, Internet of Things, and Big Data. The focus is tosearch the evidence that government agency implemented those technologies.
The second meeting was held in the 11th International Academy of CIO (IAC)
Annual meeting and Forum at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy from June 27-28, 2016.
During the meeting, the research team introduced the draft results of 2016
e-Government ranking survey and country assessment reports with 65 countries(economies).

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6. Processes of Evaluation
Start

Preparation-June2015

Commencing the survey

Distributing the questionnaires

Exploratory Research on Indicators
By Country

Cross Verification
Government
Officers

Expert Groups

Sept 2015

Revision
Tabulate the score

Rankings

Country Reports

May 2016

Expert Meeting

June 2016

Press Release

July 2016

Table 17: Process Diagram

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IX.

Contributors List (● indicate group leader)

1. List of Global Experts Group●Prof. Dr. Toshio Obi, Director, Institute of e-Government, Waseda University, Japan,

President, International Academy of CIO, Director APEC e-Gov. Research Center Prof. Dr. J.P Auffret, Chair, MOT/CIO Program of George Mason University,
USA.
 Prof. Dr. Lim Swee Cheang, National University of Singapore.
 Prof. Dr. Luca Buccoliero, Marketing Department Bocconi University, Italy.
 Prof. Dr. Suhono Harso Supangkat, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia.
 Prof. Dr. Francisco Magno, Director, Institute of Governance De La Salle
University, Philippines.
 Prof. Yang Fengchun, Dean, Academy of e-Government, Peking University, China.
 Associate Prof. Dr. Jirapon Sunkpho, Thammasat University, Thailand.
 Prof. Dr. Alexander Ryzhov, School of IT management, Federal Academy of
National Economy, Russia.
 Prof. Dr. Brabec Zdenek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic.
 Prof. Dr. Tomi Dahlberg, Information System, University of Turku, Finland.

2. List of Professors and Experts at Institute of e-Government, Waseda
University
Prof. Dr. Naoko Iwasaki, Waseda University
Prof. Dr. Tatsuyuki Negoro, Waseda University

Prof. Dr. Takashi Kobayashi, Tokai
University
Prof. Dr. Yoshio Tozawa, University ofIndustrial and Science-

Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi Nakamura, Waseda University

Mr. Keiichi Iwata,Senior Expert NTT
Data-

Prof. Kiyohide
University

LLC Naoko Mizukoshi, Lawyer-

Prof. Dr.
University

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Higuchi,

HirokoWaseda -Kudo,

Chuo -Mr. Akira Watari, ex-Director of IT,
Toyota Motors

3. List of Researchers at Institute of e-Government, Waseda University-

Mr. Nguyen Manh Hien, Ph.D.

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Mr. Pingky Dezar Zulkarnain-

Mr. Bandaxay Lovanxay-

Mr. James Giguere-

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh-

Ms. Yang Yao

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