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Sixth Brown global e-government survey

Posted on Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 1:51 PM by Andrew Chadwick

... is in. The winner is South Korea, which shot up from 86th last year.

The top ten:

1 (86) Korea (Republic)
2 (1) Taiwan
3 (2) Singapore
4 (3) United States
5 (6) Canada
6 (11) Great Britain
7 (9) Ireland
8 (7) Germany
8 (53) Japan
10 (88) Spain

Last year's rankings in parentheses.

In Chapter Eight of the book I take a look at the development of interactive features on government websites over time, using the Brown data. The 2006 data confirm the patchy situation. See this table. While email availability is increasing steadily, commenting opportunities are not.

Full Brown Report here.

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