Cross-Boundary Projects E-Governance as a Method of EAEU Economic Policy Integration

Abstract

This study systematizes the notion of the project e-governance as the method of maintaining consistent economic policy between the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter EAEU): the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan. The article defines conceptual space for the category “Cross-boundary projects e-governance for the EAEU countries”. The paper analyses project management development in the EAEU countries and union member states, identifies the development trends for the corresponding territories. The benchmarking reveals best experience of the e-governance projects at the state level. The authors propose and justify the EAEU cross-boundary project classification, which specifies and distinguishes the following notions: “EAEU cross-boundary IT projects of first priority” and “EAEU cross-boundary sustaining IT projects”. The article outlines the main development elements of the EAEU e-governance development institution: Strategic central project office. That is the organization, created by the Eurasian Economic Commission and dealing with planning and control of the cross-boundary project activity between EAEU members, providing methodological and administrative support that is in charge of creating project oriented project portfolio e-governance system, separate cross-functional projects e-governance system and EAEU programs e-governance system. The authors have worked out a simplified pattern of the proposed cross-boundary projects e-governance scheme in order to conduct consistent economic policy between EAEU countries.