HODNOCENÍ PŘIPRAVENOSTI EGOVERNMENTU ČESKÉ REPUBLIKY

ANDRÝSKOVA, J.: eGovernment readiness assessment of the Czech Republic. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2009, LVII, No. 6, pp. 13–18 Modern information technologies has entered all spheres of human activities, public administration authorities are not exceptions. There has been signifi cantly increasing tendency in using information and communication technologies since beginning of the century in public administration. Despite of some indicators, progress of public administration information systems is too slow. Several organizations are engaged of eGovernment assessment at the international level. We can fi nd some variations in the methodologies that cause diff erent ranking of some countries in international comparison. The main goal of this paper is to analyze and assess the present state of Czech Republic eGo vernment with using both external indicators and internal indicators. eGovernment index, developed by United Nations, will be the main external indicator of eGovernment quality of the Czech Republic. It includes both potential for eGovernment development and its implementation, and it‘s the most complete international ranking at present. It is defi ned as average of the telecommunication infrastructure index, the human capital index and the web measure index. It represents overall country ability to engage and implement eGovernment. Internal ranking of the Czech Republic eGovernment will be based upon eGovernment level coeffi cient, that is defi ned as multi-dimensional model based on technology and communication facility index, Internet using index, using of public administration services by persons and companies, poviding obligatory information, existence of electronic regis try on web pages, web pages accessability and language mutations. Selected statistic data are related to information society and using information technologies in public administration and were published on Czech Statistical Offi ce or evaluated on the bases of previous years‘ development.