A 'digital gap' between developed country and least developed country

Abstract

The 'Digital gap' is a very common terminology in e-government now days. It is the gap between and in terms of information use and access. There have been many efforts carried out by different sectors in filling this gap. E-government is considered as a tool to reduce this gap along with enhancing the economic, political, societal condition of a nation. Few countries have achieved maximum benefits in reducing the gap through e-government and many countries are still struggling on it. There are still big differences between these countries. Based upon the achievements and other defined parameters, UN does the survey in every two years and makes a report. As per the report, some countries are successful enough to increase its position in UN index and some countries are not successful. We try to identify the reason behind these in this paper.We consider two countries, highly developed and least developed We take Korean case as developed country and Nepalese case as least developed country and do comparative study in this paper. Finding the force that makes Korea to move up and Nepal to move down is the main theme of this paper. At the end of the paper we provide the recommendations for Korea to maintain its position and also for Nepal to move up from existing position.