Balkans JETSS (2019) 2: 115-123 UDEKOM Balkan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/Balkans.JETSS.2019.2.2.115-123 www.udekom.org.rs
E-GOVERNMENT AS A SMART SOLUTION
FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: A CASE OF VISEGRAD GROUP
Ingrid Majerova
1
Received: June 16, 2019 / Revised: July 24, 2019/ Accepted: October 15, 2019
© Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, 2019
Abstract: More than ffteen years ago, through the benchmarking method, the United Nations
began to carry out a survey of the electronisation level of public administration - e-government.
Three areas of its level – online services, telecommunication infrastructure and human capital -
have been summarized into a single index called E-government Development Index (EGDI). The
main objective of this research was to provide an overview of the current status of the Visegrad
Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in EGDI development and compare the
level of this index. The results show frstly that the monitored group of countries are placed at the
end of EU ranking and secondly that while Poland has improved its level, the Czech Republic is
lagging behind.
Keywords: E-government Development Index, Min-max Method, Czech Republic, Hungary, Po-
land, Slovakia
JEL Classifcation I38 · O38 · R59
This paper was presented at the Fifth International Scientifc Conference on Knowledge Based Sustainable Development
- ERAZ 2019 – May 23, Budapest, Hungary, www.eraz.org.rs
Ingrid Majerova
majerova@opf.slu.cz
1
Silesian University in Opava, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Univerzitni nam. 1934/3, 73340
Karvina, Czech Republic