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The reform of public sector governance in many developing countries who have
invested in the opportunities created by ICTs has increase the need to access their
readiness level. The Vanuatu government over the past few years has been actively
involved in promoting and encouraging ICTs investment. The objective of the study and
the readiness questions regarding the country benefiting from the opportunities created
by ICTs must be answered so that the implementation of strategies that are effective can
be developed.
A number of e-Readiness assessments and surveys have been conducted to address the
readiness questions. In addition, there are several e-Readiness initiatives aiming to help
developing countries with assessing their e-Readiness, and numerous e-Readiness
assessment tools have been device, each looking at various aspects of ICTs, society, and
economy. According to Bridge.org (2008) more than 1,056 e-Readiness assessment
exercises have been conducted globally and many of these measuring tools and models
have been used specifically to measure the extent to which organisations are ready to
deliver services with regards to ICTs.
These tools may have been designed to measure e-Government readiness. This study
will explore some of the existing readiness tools that will provide ideas into compiling a
new m-Readiness tool that will be used to measure m-Readiness of VGO. Bridges.org
(2008) compiled a comprehensive list of some of the existing readiness tools. A
comparative analysis and definitions of some of these readiness tools are provided by
Vaezi and Bimar (2009). We cover a few of these tools in the following paragraphs.
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