Singapore Continues to Lead Waseda Rankings for Third Year Running

The Waseda University Institute of e-Government has released the 2011 Waseda University World e-Government Ranking, marking its seventh consecutive year of monitoring the development of e-Government worldwide. Singapore is once again at the top of the list.

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The complete list of the top 15 countries (economies) which have the most advanced development in e-government according to the Waseda Survey are:

1. Singapore
2. USA
3. Sweden
4. Korea
5. Finland
6. Japan
7. Canada
8. Estonia
9. Belgium
10. United Kingdom 
11. Denmark
12. Italy
13. Taiwan
14. Australia
15. Norway
    The 2011 ranking surveys the e-Government development of 50 countries altogether. New to the rankings are 10 countries, which were added to the survey for the first time: Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Macau SAR, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, and Uzbekistan.

Prof. Dr. Toshio Obi, Director of the Waseda Institute and Head of the research team observed that "ICT can be a powerful tool to current economic issues and in doing so, consolidate an inclusive Information Society. Governments are key actors in this process in building towards a citizen-oriented state".

Altogether, there are seven main indicators used to carry out the survey. These indicators are:

• network preparedness
• required interface-functioning applications
• management optimization
• national portal
• CIO in government
• e-Government promotion and
• e-participation.

No	Final Rankings	Score
1	Singapore	92.14
2	USA	92.13
3	Sweden	88.32
4	Korea	87.50
5	Finland	86.90
6	Japan	86.85
7	Canada	85.13
8	Estonia	84.10
9	Belgium	83.55
10	UK	82.40
10	Denmark	82.40
12	Italy	81.20
13	Taiwan	79.31
14	Australia	78.50
15	Norway	77.61
16	Spain	75.30
17	Germany	73.15
18	France	72.05
19	Switzerland	71.88
20	Netherlands	70.75
21	New Zealand	70.21
22	Portugal	69.02
23	Thailand	67.67
24	Malaysia	67.37
25	Philippines	65.10
26	HongKong SAR	63.50
27	Tunisia	62.10
28	Mexico	62.05
29	China	60.80
30	India	60.15
31	South Africa	59.71
32	Israel	58.80
33	Turkey	57.50
33	Macau SAR	57.50
35	Russia	57.10
36	Indonesia	56.88
37	Egypt	56.13
38	Vietnam	55.70
39	Czech Republic	51.80
40	Romania	49.15
41	Brazil	48.80
42	Brunei	46.50
43	Chile	42.15
44	Kazakhstan	38.14
45	Peru	35.20
46	Pakistan	32.81
47	Fiji	30.10
48	Iran	26.10
49	Uzbekistan	25.11
50	Georgia	22.46

(Source :www.waseda.jp)

Over the past seven years, the Waseda e-Government research team has surveyed the developments and observed the trends in the e-government arena. Some of the more prominent or interesting trends deal not just with technological developments, but also "paradigms" of how ICT is to be viewed within the context of solving problems.

2005		2006		2007		2008		2009
1	USA	1	USA	1	USA	1	USA	1	Singapore
2	Canada	2	Canada	2	Singapore	2	Singapore	2	USA
3	Singapore	3	Singapore	3	Canada	3	Canada	3	Sweden
4	Finland	4	Japan	4	Japan	4	Korea	4	UK
5	Sweden	5	Korea	4	Korea	5	Japan	5	Japan
6	Australia	6	Germany	6	Australia	6	Hong Kong SAR	5	Korea
7	Japan	7	Taiwan	7	Finland	7	Australia	7	Canada
8	Hong Kong SAR	8	Australia	8	Taiwan	8	Finland	8	Taiwan
9	Malaysia	9	UK	9	UK	9	Sweden	9	Finland
10	UK	10	Finland	10	Sweden	9	Taiwan	10	Germany, Italy

2010		2011
1	Singapore	1	Singapore
2	UK	2	USA
2	USA	3	Sweden
4	Canada	4	Korea
5	Australia	5	Finland
6	Japan	6	Japan
7	Korea	7	Canada
8	Germany	8	Estonia
9	Sweden	9	Belgium
10	Taiwan, Italy	10	UK, Denmark

(Source :www.waseda.jp)

The complete report of the Waseda Rankings will be published in the Journal of EGovernance (ISSN 1878-7673, edited by Mr. Russell Pipe and published by IOS Press) in volume 34, number 2

The Waseda University Institute of e-Government is also in charge of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) e-Government Research Center. In coordination with APEC, the Institute has been continuously monitoring and researching on the development of e-Government strategies of APEC member economies since 2004 as part of the activities of the “e-APEC” initiative.