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Table 3:3 E-readiness tools, domains, aims, and indicators. Source (Shareef, et al., 2008).<br />

Assessment Tool Domain Aim Indicators<br />

World<br />

Telecommunication /<br />

ICT Indicators<br />

APEC E-Commerce<br />

Readiness<br />

Assessment<br />

CID‟s E-Readiness<br />

Assessment Guide<br />

ICT Infrastructure<br />

Readiness<br />

- 63 -<br />

Identify, define and<br />

produce statistics<br />

covering<br />

telecommunication<br />

Sectoral e-Readiness Help government<br />

develop their owned<br />

focused policies. It<br />

can be adapted to<br />

specific environment,<br />

e.g. for development<br />

of e-commerce<br />

Society‟s e-Readiness Provides the first step<br />

in creating a strategic<br />

approach to planning,<br />

for communities in<br />

the developed world.<br />

Over 100 indicators of<br />

telecommunication<br />

and ICT sector,<br />

including statistics on<br />

telephones, Internet<br />

and computers,<br />

National Indicators<br />

(e.g. GDP)<br />

Basic infrastructure<br />

and telephone, Access<br />

to necessary Services,<br />

promotion and<br />

facilitation activities;<br />

skills and human<br />

resources, positioning<br />

of digital economy<br />

access, learning,<br />

society, economy,<br />

policy<br />

It can be argued that the readiness tools presented above are designed to specifically<br />

address the level of e-Readiness of a country covering wider aspects of an organisation,<br />

Societies, Communities, or Individuals. Though the study may not directly reference

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