the human capital index hci is the highest contributing subindex in all regions while the telecommunication infrastructure index til is the lowest this implies that the major impediments to the further growth of egovernment development worldwide are still the lack of infrastructure and the digital divide africa has the lowest hci and online service index osi but its osi at is relatively close to oceanias osi at while asias osi at is better than the americas at it still ranks behind the americas in terms of egdi due to asias lower hci and til rating according to a recent report by the economic commission for africa while there is an impressive growth in mobile broadband access across much of the continent there remains very limited access to fixed broadband