e-Government is a very complex domain having multi-dimensional aspects. Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and software piracy issues are directly related to e-government establishment. An analytical study between e-government readiness, education index and software piracy rate was conducted. It was found that e-government readiness was inversely proportional to software piracy rate and directly proportional to the education index.

1. How Piracy Affects the
e-Government?
By M Kashif Farooq
Presented at
International Conference on Web Information Systems and
Mining 2009
Published at IEEE Computer Society & ACM

3. Abstract
e-government is a very complex domain
having multi-dimensional aspects. Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR) and software piracy
issues are directly related to e-government
establishment.
An analytical study between e-government
readiness, education index and software
piracy rate was conducted.
It was found that e-government readiness
was inversely proportional to software piracy
rate and directly proportional to the
education index.

4. Scope of Research
In this paper, we conduct a
comparative study of
e-government ranking
reports by United Nations
(UN) and
software piracy reports
by Business Software
Alliance (BSA)

5. Presentation of Software Piracy Study 2007 by BSA
and e-Government Survey 2008 by UNDESA

6. Countries above the Trend Line
(Piracy) of Graph
Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate
1 Estonia 13 51
2 Ukraine 41 83
4 Venezuela 62 87
8 Azerbaijan 89 92
9 Maldives 95 92
10 Sri Lanka 101 90
11 Armenia 103 93
These Countries having good e-Gov rank as compare to piracy rate

7. Countries below the Trend Line
(Piracy) of Graph
Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate
3 South Africa 61 34
5 Mauritius 63 57
6 Egypt 79 60
7 Oman 84 61
12 India 113 69
13 Morocco 140 67
These Countries having good piracy rate as compare to e-Gov rank

8. E-Gov Rank vs Education Index
Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate
f Kazakhstan 81 97.59
h Montenegro 100 89.11
i Armenia 103 89.88
Libyan Arab
k 120 87.49
Jamahiriya
These Countries having good education index as compare to e-Gov rank

9. E-Gov Rank vs Education Index
Graph Label Country E-Gov Rank Piracy Rate
a United Arab Emirates (UAE) 32 79.08
b Brazil 45 77.3
c South Africa 61 80.61
d El Salvador 67 77.23
e Egypt 79 73.23
g Guatemala 81 97.59
j India 113 61.95
l Pakistan 131 46.59
m Senegal 153 39.4
These Countries having good e-Gov rank as compare to Education Index

10. Conclusion
E-Readiness of e-Government rank is
inversely proportional to software piracy
rate and
E-Readiness of e-Government rank is
directly proportional to Education index
However, few countries are away from
trend line due to their policies, strategies
and priorities about e-Government and
education.

11. Conclusion
Education and software piracy have heavy impact on
national culture
E-Readiness for e-government needs supportive
national culture.