A recent survey of Toronto voters showed an extremely high support for internet voting, with as much as 98% of respondents saying that they are likely to again vote online in future municipal elections. The study, which polled voters who participated in the 2014 Toronto municipal election, was conducted by Dr Nicole Goodman of The Centre ...
In what observers are considering a strong indicator of Vietnam’s resoluteness in adopting e-Governance, the country has just moved up ten places in a UN study ranking the progress of its member states in regard to development of e-Governance. Vietnam has taken the 89th spot in the ranking contained in the recently released United Nations E-Government ...
Speaking at the Tallinn e-Governance Conference last May, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves underscored the importance of a reliable identification technology in ensuring better e-Government services. "I believe that the role of the government in the 21st century should be security and the protection of rights in the digital environment, and an inescapable tool in this ...
Residents of the Gasabo District in Rwanda finally got a taste of e-Government services with the launch of an e-Government online portal. The initiative garnered praises from residents who expressed optimism that e-Government would improve their lives. A local resident Laurent Turimumahoro shared how the portal has lessened the time needed to acquire specific services compared ...
Automated elections in the Philippines got a boost when an election watchdog announced that its random manual (RMA) showed a 99.8% match between the electronic count and the manual count. "It is already high," said Tammy Lipana of the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), adding that "there is no perfect system, but as we can ...