Last updated: February 26, 2015
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In new EU study, selective survey rates European countries on provision of digital services; Germany lower than Benelux, UK on connectivity, for example The digital gap in Europe shows that public services are an everyday reality in some countries but almost non-existent in others: 33% of European Internet users have used online forms to send information to public authorities, ranging from 69% in Denmark to 6% in Romania.
A new Digital Economy and Society Index a developed by the European Commission shows how digital countries vary across the EU and that borders “remain an obstacle” to a fully-fledged Digital Single Market – one of the top priorities of its Juncker Commission.
As an example, it says that 26% of general practitioners in Europe use e-prescriptions to transfer prescriptions to pharmacists over the Internet, but this varies from 100% in Estonia to 0% in Malta.