7.1 Conducting e-Readiness assessment
In this paper, e-Readiness refers to the government ability to take advantage of the ICTs as a facility to enhance and improve its administrative functions. e-Readiness has several components, including telecommunications infrastructure, human resources, and legal and policy framework.
e-Readiness assessment suggested above can be conducted on:
• Data systems infrastructure
• Legal infrastructure
• Institutional infrastructure (standardization of various departmental means of communication and the technology that is used)
• Human infrastructure
• Technological infrastructure
• Leadership and strategic thinking readiness (short, medium and long term plans by specific government ministries)
In this regard, e-Readiness assessment can be used as an information-gathering mechanism for governments as they plan their strategies for ICT implementation. It can help the project team to better understand what impediments to ICT implementation exist and what initiatives are needed to overcome them.