A Focus on e-Gov
The smart Insights focus
on providing a brief overview of the key
findings and best practices in the industry.
After extensive research and analysis,
smartBridges shares its insights with
its partners and customers so that they
can leverage opportunities and make more
informed decisions.
In developing countries,
governments are beginning to allocate
budgets for rural development, particularly
rural ICT development, to support e-Government
projects. Bringing the benefits that urban
residents enjoy, such as online bill payment,
submitting official documents and broadband
Internet connectivity as well as delivering
e-Learning and telemedicine to rural residents
aids economic development and progress
as well as improving the lives of rural
populations.
 The
UN e-Government Survey 2008: From e-Government
to Connected Governance, a biannual study
commissioned by the United Nations states
that only a few governments have made
the necessary investment to move from
e-government applications per se to a
more integrated connected government.
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 while Maldives (ranked
95), Sri Lanka (101) and Iran (108) have
improved their ranks.
Sweden has surpassed the United States
as the leader in the overall e-Readiness
index, with Denmark, Norway coming in
second and third respectively. The United
States slipped to fourth place, while
Pakistan and Bangladesh have both improved
and climbed to 131(from 136) and 142 (from
162) respectively.
Citizens of every town and country rely
on services provided by their government.
These services include everything from
health care, education, law and order,
welfare, and taxes. Governments need to
consider not only the policy, but also
how to deliver this across tens of thousands
of services, and how to get different
technologies from different vendors to
bind together to meet these policy objectives.
Designing and maintaining such a system
is a complex task especially if there
are several remote villages that require
these facilities. Wireless links can be
deployed at any location thus creating
access to the government services. A wireless
link for such services must be robust,
reliable, scalable, and secure.
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to learn more about smartBridges solutions
for wireless connectivity of e-Gov projects.
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In
remote areas of large countries, it is simply not economically
feasible to lay the last mile of cable to provide Internet
connectivity. Combine that with the fact that in most
parts of the world, rural areas are predominantly impoverished
and you have billions of people who will never have
access to the Internet or participate in the digital
revolution. This is where wireless technology shows
the greatest promises. Wireless broadband makes access
to services otherwise unavailable in rural areas possible.
For instance: 
CommunicaAsia
2008 will commence in Singapore next month, and
in case you haven’t yet registered for this
event, now would be a great time to do so. We will
be presenting a wide range of solutions for broadband
wireless access, rural connectivity, e-Gov, and
video surveillance, just to name a few. Please 
