“Governments tend to leave the security decisions to their integrators, our recommendation is that it is a mistake, as governments need direct access to security, even if the security comes through integrators”, says Chris Fedde, President and COO, Safenet Inc.
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Background
Estonia is internationally renowned for being a pioneer in the adaptation to new banking technologies. Estonia is currently belonging to the country group of medium Internet penetration on the global scale outnumbering its Baltic neighbours and Eastern-European countries but being somewhat behind from the Scandinavian countries, USA, Canada, leading European countries and some Asian countries.
In e-Governance readiness, India has fallen from a rank of 87 in 2005 to 113 in 2008 on e-Government readiness. According to the UN e-Government Survey 2008, India has slipped 26 places in the last three years and been overtaken by countries like Maldives (ranked 95), Sri Lanka (101) and even Iran (108).
[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The European Commission has proposed a system, which provides cars in Europe with a direct contact to the emergency services.
When most of Asian countries have bettered their place in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2007 e-readiness rankings, Thailand slipped two places, from 47th to 49th, out 69 countries in worldwide e-Readiness rankings.
UK is falling behind in its overall IT readiness and infrastructure. From the fifth in 2006 through, now the UK has dropped to seventh.
[This article was published in the May 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The per capita income in Western India is the highest in the country at USD 850 (PPP). It would be appropriate then to assume that this would have an impact on the level of automation of medical care in the region.
Networked Readiness Index survey by the World Economic Forum shows that China and India, hot spots in the global economy, placed lower in this year’s survey. China fell nine spots to 59 while India slipped to 44 from 40.
