E-readiness

E-readiness refers to a country's capacity and state of preparedness to participate in the electronic world. The state of maturity is commonly measured by the country's information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and the ability of its government and citizens to use the positive impacts of ICT for sustainable development. ^{[1] [2]}

Measures

The measures to evaluate the electronic preparedness may vary from country to country or even depending on the level of analysis to which one is interested (micro, meso, or macro,) considering not only the need to recognize the electronic preparedness of the country but also some specific environments/areas.^{[ citation needed ]}

The common factors that are taken into consideration for measuring e-readiness of a country are:^{[ citation needed ]}

• Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure.
• Degree of preparedness of a country's government, citizens, businesses, and NGOs to use ICT for sustainable development. ^[3]
• Digital economy rankings

See also

• e-Government
• ICT Development Index

References

1. "What is e-readiness". IGI Global.
2. "e-readiness". Association for Progressive Communications. Archived from the original on 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
3. "A framework for measuring national e-readiness" (PDF). Orfalea College of Business. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2017-01-05.