What do you mean by E-Readiness ? Also need and importance of e-readiness.

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E- Readiness
  •  It is a measure of the degree to which a country, nation, or economy may be ready, willing, or prepared to obtain benefits that arise from information and communication technologies (ICTs).
  • This measure is often used to gauge how ready a country is to partake in electronic activities such as e-commerce and e-government.

                 Or,   The maturity of citizens, businesses, NGOs, and governments for participating in the electronic world (e-commerce, e-government, etc.)

  • In most cases, e-readiness is represented in terms of indices, where countries are rated in various areas such as the number of telephone lines per 100 people, or the percentage of GDP spent on IT infrastructure. The results are tabulated and can then be used to make comparison both between countries in the form of rankings, as well as longitudinal studies within countries.
  • E-readiness as a “Measure of e-business environment, a collection of factors that indicate how amenable a market is to Internet-based opportunities”.
  • E-readiness also defined as “The degree to which a community is prepared to participate in the networked world. Measured by assessing the community’s relative advancement in the most critical information and Communications Technology (ICT) adoption and most important ICT applications.

  • The measure of the quality of a country’s ICT infrastructure and the ability of its consumers, businesses, and governments to use ICT to their benefit


                                                                  OR, 


  • e-Readiness refers to a country's ability to take advantage of the Internet as an engine of economic growth and human development.
  • E-readiness refers to a country's capacity and state of preparedness to participate in the electronic world. The state of maturity is commonly measured by the country's information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and the ability of its government and citizens to use the positive impacts of ICT for sustainable development.
  • e-Readiness is the generic capacity or aptitude of the public sector to use ICT for encapsulating public services and deploying to the public high-quality information (explicit knowledge) and effective communication tools that support human development. 


Need of E-readiness 

  • E-readiness is defined as the aptitude of an economy to use the information and communications technologies to migrate traditional businesses into the new economy.
  •  E-readiness reaches its optimal level when the economy is able to create new business opportunities that could not be done otherwise.
  • The concept of e-readiness is important because its level can be a strong predictor of how well a country can perform in the new economy.
  •  An e-readiness assessment would provide policymakers with a detailed scorecard of their economy's competitiveness relative to its international counterparts.
  •  Further, a breakdown of indicators allows policy analysts to pinpoint areas of strengths and weaknesses, thus providing a balanced perspective in guiding a country through the digital transformation.

 Importance of e-readiness

 •Using an e-readiness model:

   - Will Help formulating strategic plans based on identified parameters.

   - Justify projects and their dependencies

   - Upgrading to higher levels of maturity

   - Unify criteria to assess and compare the readiness

• E-readiness criteria depend on ideal organization characterized in "learning organization".
     - "learning organizations continuously learn through its members individually and collectively to create a sustainable competitive advantage by effectively managing internally and externally generated change".
 
• Has high value

• For both the planners of activity and the participating communities.

• Avoids delays and disappointments
   - Identifies any lack of preparedness of a community to implement a virtual response at an early stage.

• Avoids huge losses in time, money, and effort.

• Can prepare remote communities in developing countries, in order to reduce the digital divide.

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