Evaluating e-government and good governance correlation

Assessing the achievement of indonesian government institutions in implementing e-government has been conducted since around a decade ago. several national assessments are available with almost the same ranking results. there is an agreement that the ultimate goal of e-government implementation is to achieve good government governance (ggg),while success stories of e-government require good governance practices. this study explored the correlation between e-government achievement and ggg achievement in indonesia. spearman’s rank correlation was used to characterize the relationship strength between e-government assessment results and good governance assessment results. the data were collected from institutions that participated in e-government and good governance assessments. the results showed that the correlation between these two entities is not very strong. most cases showed that e-government implementation and the achievement of good governance have only a moderate positive correlation and none of the studied cases indicated a significant connection. this result can be attributed to the lack of emphasis on goals achievement in the assessments. thus,it is recommended that future indonesian e-government assessments should involve impact indicators. © 2015 published by itb journal publisher.