EUROPEAN STUDIES – VOLUME 3/2016
monitoring percentage of individuals having purchased/ordered online in the last three months were generally perplexingly different to percentage of enterprises having received orders in the previous year – meaning that the percentage of individuals that ordered was much higher than percentage of enterprises that received orders even when counted in quarter of year periods. Does it mean that individuals were ordering from individuals rather than enterprises? And did the percentage of enterprises receiving orders include orders from individuals as well as orders from other enterprises? Generally, it needs to be stated that the reason behind these indicators is still unclear and raises questions. The second part looked at the e-Government indicators and was rather more interesting though it must be said that the results for the Czech Republic were rather appalling as well as interesting – especially the development of the last indicator being the percentage of individuals using the internet for sending completed forms to public authorities. As it has already been stated it would be rather interesting to look deeper into the reasons that led the Czechs to rise from 6% to 33% and then drop down to 12%. If it was possible to analyse the reasons behind this, it might be easier to persuade the public to increase the e-Government indicators all together as the Czech Republic has shown below average EU results in all of them. Countries that have shown above average results in all of the four indicators are: Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom. These might be worth looking at closer to evaluate the motivation of the people.
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