DUBAI, 7 February 2004 — A recent UN e-government report has ranked the UAE as the top performer in e-government readiness in the Middle East and Africa region. It is followed on the list by Bahrain, Turkey, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon and Qatar.
The rankings were based on three indicators — governments’ willingness to employ e-government as a tool to inform, interact, transact and network; telecom infrastructure and human capital index which took into consideration the literacy rate and the overall school enrolment percentages.
“Nations around the world are giving top priority to making themselves e-government ready. E-government is fast becoming the key driver of a country’s economy. However, certain countries have shown greater determination to transform themselves into knowledge economies within a stipulated timeframe. The UAE is certainly one of them and its achievements have now been acknowledged by the UN report and other studies,” said Salem Al-Shair, director e-Services, Dubai e-Government.
