According to the biennial UN E-Government Development Index (EGDI), no country performs better that Denmark when it comes to public digitalisation.

The report ranked Denmark first with a score of 0.9150 – based on a score of 1.0 for Online Service, a score of 0.9472 for Human Capital and 0.7978 for Telecommunications Infrastructure.

“Denmark’s top placement is fully deserved. I’m really pleased that the many years of working hard to digitalise the public sector to make it more accessible for citizens and companies is now bearing fruit” said the innovation minister, Sophie Løhde.

The UN has published the index since 2001 and it’s the first time that Denmark finishes first out of the 193 membership countries. The Danes were ranked ninth in the 2016.

Countries with the best E-Government Development Index:

1. Denmark
2. Australia
3. Republic of Korea
4. Great Britain
5. Sweden
6. Finland
7. Singapur
8. New Zeland
9. France
10. Japan
11. USA
12. Germany
13. Netherlands
14. Norway
15. Switzerland

Somalia was ranked rock bottom, just ahead of Niger, Equatorial Guinea and Chad.

Source: cphpost.dk
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