How Piracy Affects the e-Government?

By M Kashif FarooqPresented at

International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining 2009

Published at IEEE Computer Society & ACM

e-government is a very complex domain having multi-dimensional aspects. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and software piracy issues are directly related to e-government establishment.

An analytical study between e-government readiness, education index and software piracy rate was conducted.

It was found that e-government readiness was inversely proportional to software piracy rate and directly proportional to the education index.

Abstract

Scope of Research

In this paper, we conduct a comparative study of e-government

ranking reports by United Nations (UN) and

software piracy reports by Business Software Alliance (BSA)

Presentation of Software Piracy Study 2007 by BSA and e-Government Survey 2008 by

UNDESA

Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate

1 Estonia 13 51

2 Ukraine 41 83

4 Venezuela 62 87

8 Azerbaijan 89 92

9 Maldives 95 92

10 Sri Lanka 101 90

11 Armenia 103 93

Countries above the Trend Line (Piracy) of Graph

These Countries having good e-Gov rank as compare to piracy rate

Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate

3 South Africa 61 34

5 Mauritius 63 57

6 Egypt 79 60

7 Oman 84 61

12 India 113 69

13 Morocco 140 67

Countries below the Trend Line (Piracy) of Graph

These Countries having good piracy rate as compare to e-Gov rank

Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate

f Kazakhstan 81 97.59

h Montenegro 100 89.11

i Armenia 103 89.88

k Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 120 87.49

E-Gov Rank vs Education Index

These Countries having good education index as compare to e-Gov rank

Graph Label

Country E-Gov Rank

Piracy Rate

a United Arab Emirates (UAE)

32 79.08

b Brazil 45 77.3

c South Africa 61 80.61

d El Salvador 67 77.23

e Egypt 79 73.23

g Guatemala 81 97.59

j India 113 61.95

l Pakistan 131 46.59

m Senegal 153 39.4

E-Gov Rank vs Education Index

These Countries having good e-Gov rank as compare to Education Index

E-Readiness of e-Government rank is inversely proportional to software piracy rate and

E-Readiness of e-Government rank is directly proportional to Education index

However, few countries are away from trend line due to their policies, strategies and priorities about e-Government and education.

Conclusion

Education and software piracy have heavy impact on national culture

E-Readiness for e-government needs supportive national culture.

Conclusion