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Toward the development of a standard e‐readiness assessment policy
Author(s) -
Bakry Saad Haj
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of network management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1099-1190
pISSN - 1055-7148
DOI - 10.1002/nem.466
Subject(s) - computer science , international standard , order (exchange) , policy development , development (topology) , engineering management , process management , risk analysis (engineering) , management science , telecommunications , political science , business , public administration , mathematical analysis , mathematics , finance , economics , engineering
Information networking for digital integration is becoming of increasing importance for national and international organizations concerned with development. E‐Readiness assessments, for various countries, are associated with the investigation of their state of readiness for such integration. They help in understanding the problems that need to be resolved in order to avoid digital divide, or even digital isolation, from world development. Such assessments lack standard policies, which provide unified measures that ease evaluations, support analysis and comparisons, and help in diagnosing problems and deriving solutions. This paper is concerned with the development of a standard e‐readiness assessment policy. It provides a base for the development of such a policy, and hopes that this base will contribute to a future standard international policy. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.