3. It is the application of information and communication technology (ICT) for
delivering government services
It is the use of information technologies by government agencies.
It serves variety of purposes.
The resulting benefits include less corruption, increased transparency, greater
convenience, and/or revenue growth.
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5. Land area of 98, 06, 391 sq. ft.
Population around 1,341 million.
CHINA
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Mr. Xii Jinping
President of China
6. The noteworthy progresses of Chinese governments’ e-development have started in
the year of 1990.
China’s “Government Online Project”, launched in 1999, illustrates the ambition of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to set up e-governance.
The percentage of internet penetration in the country is 42.0 and has nearly
564,000,000 internet users.
On May 18th, 1998, there were only 145 gov.cn domain names in China.
Invest 1 billion RMB Yuan to set up five new internet based propaganda agencies
which have their own portals at middle of the year 2000.
According to the CNSC (Chinese Nation Statistical Commission) annual report in
2002, the number of gov.cn domain names has grown up to 5864.
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7. Government Online Project
Online electronic information exchange.
Electronic delivery.
Electronic tax.
Digital identification.
Golden Bridge Project
Provides public network of economic information.
Links up private and government department networks across the country.
Golden Card project
An initiative to introduce the e-banking idea in China.
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8. Country Development Index Development Ranking Population
2012 2010 2012 2010
Nigeria 0.2676 0.2687 162 150 158
China 0.5359 0.4700 78 72 1.314
India 0.3829 0.3567 125 119 1.225
United States 0.8687 0.8510 5 2 310
Indonesia 0.4949 0.4026 97 109 240
Brazil 0.6167 0.5006 59 61 195
Pakistan 0.2823 0.2755 156 146 174
Bangladesh 0.2991 0.3028 150 134 149
Japan 0.8019 0.7152 18 17 127
Mexico 0.6240 0.5150 55 56 113
Table : E-GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE LARGE POPULACE COUNTRIES 8
9. By the end of 1999, 30% of ministries and provincial governments should be
moved onto the Internet.
By the end of 2000, 60% of departments of central and provincial levels should be
brought online.
By the end of 2001, 80% of state organizations should be online.
Last, in the years following 2001, all state agencies including embassies and
consulates abroad should be networked.
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10. To build up a highly effective e-government.
To make existing information accessible to all citizens and to facilitate
bureaucratic procedures.
The White Paper of Government Online Project State, the www.gov.cn contains six
components which outline the main focus of the project.
i. The guidelines of “Government Online’’.
ii. The propaganda center of ‘‘Government Online”.
iii. Bulletins of government needs.
iv. The service center.
v. The information center.
vi. Hundred cities network.
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11. The content of the first page
will allow an identification of
special characteristics of
china’s government.
Methodologically, this
analysis focuses on the links
of the first page which reflect
the agenda and motivation of
the website-maker(China’s
Goverment)
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12. Service oriented links
Provide links to other government agencies.
Information data in terms of public goods.
Communication oriented links
consist of feedback e-mail boxes.
polls to which every cyber citizen can usually gain access.
Business oriented links
Provides business and economic information.
Eg: data from the stock market as well as commercial advertisements.
Agenda-setting links
indicate that the government is interested in taking the role of guiding and influencing
the populace.
provide certain kinds of information including information which will help to improve
government’s work.
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13. Fundamental contradiction between the leadership’s intention to promote of an e-
government.
The insufficient bandwidth of network results in slow speed internet
communications.
Lack of sufficient funding.
The sheer land size of China where the ICT infrastructure distribution is not even
and IT literacy is lower.
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14. Qingdao Shenzhen Chifen Taipei
Population 2.2 M 3.79M 0.44 M 5.5M
Register hit per day 1558 540 93 5848
NUMBER OF VISITORS TO SOME LOCAL GOV-WEBSITES
Considering the inequality of development in IT sectors and the
telecommunications infrastructure in China.
As a result, many municipal e-government sites are not visited
often.
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15. China is still a long way away from a service and communication oriented e-
government.
Lack significant numbers of Internet users in the country.
Among the developing countries China has relatively good facilities.
By the end of 2000, 229 million households were connected either via mobile or
normal telephones, this implies that China is not far away from its goal of
enlarging the number of Internet users. (Yuezhi, 2000)
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16. Definition of E-governance, [Online]. Available: www.wikipedia.com , April 20,
2014.
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http://m.ieee.org/documents/e_government.pdf
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