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Part 2: eParticipation Implementations ; International audience ; International rankings of e-participation development provide useful information for making strategic decisions for a more successful information society development. However, when we start the interpretation of the ranking details, it is important to consider the context, as well as national factors and existed barriers on the way. The paper presents some results and conclusions drawn from the expert survey and aiming to detect the factors which affect e-participation development in Russia. The authors conducted an expert poll with the participation of 41 experts from government, business, NGO, scientific and education structures, and city-activists. The survey results allowed to detect the target of e-participation tools development in Russia; to determine the factors that influence positively and negatively on its development. The major finding of the survey showed the following trend: e-participation tools in Russia served to optimize the authorities' work and fight such barriers as administrative, regulative and lack of citizens' trust in e-participation tools.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: An Aging Population in the Modern World -- 2.1 Defining Aging -- 2.2 Special Characteristics of Aging in Russia -- 2.3 The Relationship of the Between Retirees and Employees -- 2.4 Conceptualizing Change: From Poverty to Social Exclusion of the Elderly -- References -- Chapter 3: Age, Work, and Retirement: Quality of Life -- 3.1 The Main Approaches to Defining the Boundaries of "Advanced" Age -- 3.2 Age Periodization and Age Limits Accepted in Russia -- 3.3 Increasing Elderly Employment -- 3.4 Representation of Elderly Employment Opportunities in Information Space of the Internet -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: What Does It Mean to Be Old? "Elderly" Identity as a Sociological Problem -- 4.1 The Gender Approach and Studying Elderly Identity -- 4.2 Age and Time, Social and Individual, Generations and Conflict -- 4.3 Life Plans -- References -- Chapter 5: Health, Adaptationary Medicine, or Healing Sicknesses? -- 5.1 Aging and Health Loss Risks -- 5.2 Mass Media and Older Persons' Health -- 5.3 "The Role of the Elderly," "Secondary Benefits," and Adaptation Medicine -- 5.4 Death, Dying, and Loss in Old Age -- References -- Chapter 6: Social Service for the Elderly -- 6.1 Western Experience Serving the Elderly. Interaction of State and Community Support -- 6.2 Characteristics of the Elderly Service System in Russia -- 6.3 Elderly People as Mutual Aid Subjects -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Education Ideas and ICT Training Practices for Older Persons -- 7.1 Research Methodology -- 7.2 Familiarity with ICT: First Interaction, First User Practices, and First Fears and Mistakes Connected with Mastering Virtual Space -- 7.3 Computer Literacy Courses: Goals and Motivation for Continued Learning.

Demographic changes can be observed all over the world. The number of seniors located in the societies of well-developed countries continues to rise. Both enterprises and governments need to be prepared for such changes. Consequently, public spaces need to evolve to reduce problems related to ageism and be friendly to all. Much attention is currently being paid to finding solutions for redesigning public spaces and adjusting them to the needs and requirements of senior citizens. To identify the preferences of seniors in relation to the characteristics of furniture in indoor public spaces, a survey study with 1539 respondents aged 60+ was conducted in Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Sweden. The gathered data were coded and implemented to the unified database. The statistical grouping method was used to recognize the characteristics of the needs and attitudes of seniors related to the use of public space furniture. The main variables taken into consideration in the analysis were the age and gender of respondents and their country of living. Among the most important findings are those indicating the necessity to provide the increased number of furniture for sitting in the public spaces and making sure they are not located too far away from each other. As the main disadvantages of public space furniture respondents indicated the lack of armrests or other solutions to facilitate getting up and/or sitting down, as well as profiled backrests that constitute solid support for the spine. The implementation of these data in the process of rethinking and redesigning public spaces may support the adaptation of indoor public furniture according to the requirements of a very large group of customers, namely, seniors. ; CC BY 4.0 © 2021 Fabisiak et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. beata.fabisiak@up.poznan.pl This examined issues constitute a part of the project: BaltSe@nioR 2.0: Innovative solutions to support BSR in providing more senior - friendly public spaces due to increased capacity of BSR companies and public institutions. This work was part-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund and European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument) within INTERREG Baltic Sea Region Programme. The paper was partially financed within the framework of Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme 'Regional Initiative of Excellence' in years 2019-2022, Project No. 005/RID/2018/19. "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."