E-Government in Ukraine: State of Implementation and Development Prospects
This article focuses on the analysis of the problem of implementing e-government as a form of public administration in Ukraine. Modern reforms of public administration are carried out with the implementation of e-government mechanisms, which allows to qualitatively improve the interaction between the state and the citizen. The definitions of "e-government" and "public administration" are given in article. It is determined that e-government is the most effective form of public administration, which allows to rationalize the costs of realize government powers, effectively identifying (or reducing) corruption risks in the provision of administrative services, giving citizens access to information. In the article set out three main problems without decision of which the introduction of e-government is impossible. The first is the low level of development of information and communication infrastructure. According to the author, the infrastructure is not ready for the introduction of e-government. The second problem is the lack of knowledge and skills of the population, citizens are not familiar with the use of computers and the Internet. The third problem is not the systemic measures of the authorities to implement e-government. An analysis of the introduction of e-government previous years was also conducted, and were studied current government initiatives and projects. It is concluded that the implementation of e-government in Ukraine, generates numerous problems, but the prospects of development is positive , active development of e-government by the authority provides by the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, which started movement in case of electronic documents. E-government is the key to the development of democracy may reduce the corruption risks, save resources and improve the interaction of citizens with the state, ignoring e-government make democratic development of Ukraine impossible.