Bangladesh has moved up nine steps on the E-Governance Development Index while it progressed 33 steps on the E-Participation Index, according to the report published by the UN that assessed the development over last two years. Bangladesh secured the 115th place among 193 countries on the E-Government Development Index or EGDI scoring 0.4862 and 51st place in E-Participation or EPI with a score of 0.8034. “Bangladesh is gradually moving towards its desired goal in e-government development ranking securing its place in the international arena,” he said. # The UN has used a scale of 0 to 1 on the following indexes-online service delivery, telecommunication infrastructure and human capital- to consider overall situation in a country and prepare the E-Government Development Index. # Denmark has topped the E-Government Index with a score of 0.915 while Somalia has been in last place with a score of 0.0566.

Source: bd News24 July 23, 2018 03:45 UTC