e-government report published

You'd be excused if you missed this, not much publicity I have to say.
I still have not read it properly, busy with teaching at present. But it looks impressive, the last in a long series of reports [and a book] on e-governemt by Darrell West.

Global E-Government, 2006
Darrell M. West, Center for Public Policy, Brown University

This report presents the results of the sixth annual global e-government survey performed by a team of researchers from Brown University. The survey measured the online presence of governments in 198 countries through the evaluation of 1,782 government websites on the basis of different criteria, including online information, electronic services (number and type of services offered), privacy and security, disability access and foreign language access. Among other findings, the survey shows that 29% of government websites offer services that are fully executable online, up from 19% in 2005. Generally, countries vary considerably in their overall e-government performance based on this analysis. The most highly ranked countries include South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Japan and Spain.

The PDF of the report is found here.