Jordan ranks eighth regionally as it moves up UN E-Government Survey

AMMAN: Jordan has made a major leap of two levels to rank in eighth place regionally on the UN 2022 E-Government Survey.
According to the biannual survey issued by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Jordan made remarkable progress, moving up two ranks regionally and 17 ranks to 100th place globally, said the Jordan News Agency, or Petra.
In a statement published on Petra, the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship said the survey included 193 countries in total. The report includes one main indicator, the development of e-government, which has three sub-indicators: online services, communications infrastructure and human resources.
Jordan ranked 74th internationally in the 2022 report, compared to 143rd in the 2020 report on the online services sub-indicator. The kingdom also ranked 125th compared to 100th on the communications infrastructure sub-indicator and 108th compared to 115th on the human resources sub-indicator.
The ministry said the decline in the communications infrastructure sub-indicator was driven by a delay in launching 5G technology, the slow-paced installation of fiber-optic Internet services and the process of reviewing subscriptions for telecommunications services.
Meanwhile, Jordan achieved 40 percent progress in the Open Government Data Index, developed in the 2020 report, from 0.5729 to 0.7915 in absolute numbers, added the ministry.
The UN E-Government Survey reviews the rate of digital transformation in UN member states and addresses the various programs that utilize information and communication technologies to provide better and faster public services to the public.

Jordan ranks eighth regionally as it moves up UN E-Government Survey