ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ РАЗВИТИЯ ЭЛЕКТРОННОЙ ДЕМОКРАТИИ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of formation practice and development prospects of e-democracy in the Russian Federation. The most important problems of e-democracy formation and development in Russia are considered as well as the ways of their solution on the basis of the analysis of annual federal congress devoted to e-democracy, which took place in Moscow. A brief description of the meaning of e-democracy is given. The authors have analyzed the impact of information and communication technologies on the processes of e-democracy. It is proved that the active introduction of information technologies into everyday social life brings with it not only positive social trends, but also those that have negative social consequences. New problems have appeared (e.g., «digital inequality», appearance of netocracy, «electronic attacks», problems with unique identification and authentication of citizens, protection of personal data security when using new information technologies, etc.) that threaten the existence of democracy in the future. For example, there has appeared a problem of computer literacy as a result of active introduction of information and communication technologies into public life. To solve it one needs to train an ordinary citizen of the country (mainly it concerns people of retirement age) to use new information technologies. Every citizen should have an access to technology that realizes the possibilities of e-democracy. This may be, for example, a personal computer, a public access terminal or something else. The content of the article proves that the potential of new information technologies can be used for the benefit of democracy and against it. Today in Russia the construction of e-state is provided at full speed along with the existence of legal state.