RUSSIAN ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT: CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES AND PRACTICE OF REALIZATION
The article adresses the subject of the formation of e-government in Russia in the theoretical and practical aspects. It was shown that e-government converts the public administration in the form of an open network, alternative of traditional, hierarchically bureaucratic system. This open network rich in the modern information and communication technologies, network management methods and organization, characterized by the active use of new actors in the public sector, increased citizen participation in governance. Factual materials and the survey’s results confirmed, on the one hand, the desire of the Russian authorities to implement e-government technology, providing the most popular public services in electronic form, on the other hand, interest in the functioning of e-government and its support by a large part of population. This mutually directed movement we can see the prospects of e-government implementation in Russia.