 Dear students, now we are going to study the e-government development index. This index is also called EGDI. EGDI index has been published by the United Nations on a biennial basis and EGDI is a composite measure of three important dimensions namely provision of online services, telecommunication connectivity and human capacity to use online services. In 2018, United Nations lists 193 countries in the e-government development index and the value of this index ranges from 0 to 1. If it is near to 0, it means that the value is quite poor and if the value is near to 1, it means that the said country is achieving almost all the dimensions of e-government index. The first, we will see the overall composite score of e-government development index in 2018. In 2018, if we see that the world leader of EGDI index was Denmark and his score is 0.9150. And if we see the regional leader, the regional leader is Korea and its score is 0.9010 which is slightly different from the world leader. And the sub-regional leader in this regard is Islamic Republic of Iran and its score is 0.6083. And when we talk about the Pakistan scores, Pakistan's score is quite low as compared to the sub-regional, regional and world leader and it's almost three times lesser than the world leader and the score is 0.3566. And Pakistan ranked in 2008, 18 at the 148th level and it was on 131 in 2008. So in 10 years, instead of improving, we have gone down in our EGDI index. And if we talk about a sub-category of EGDI index and the category name is online service index, the world leader is again the Denmark, its score is absolute one. And the regional leader in this regard is Singapore, its score is 0.9861, almost near to zero and the sub-regional leader is India and its score is 0.95 and Pakistan's scores in online service index is 0.586, which is almost half of the world leader scores or in the sub-regional leader. And when we talk about the telecommunication infrastructure index, the world leader is Morocco and its score is one and regional leader is United Arab Emirates, its score is 0.85 and sub-regional leader is Maldip, its score is 0.51 and Pakistan's score is 0.15, which is quite low as compared to the sub-regional, regional and world leader. And when we talk about the human capital index, the world leader is Australia, its score is one, a regional leader is Korea, its score is 0.87 and sub-regional leader is Sri Lanka, its score is 0.75 and Pakistan's score is 0.3682. And when we compare all these statistics, we come to know that Pakistan is far behind from the world, from the region while adopting e-government initiatives and providing e-government services to its citizens.