Regulatory and legal basis of electronic governance for modernization of administrative processes in public authorities of Ukraine

Abstract

In the article, we understand the term «administrative process» as the statutory procedure for public administration. The author considers the legal framework for introducing e-governance according to modernizing the activities of public administration, which are the main stages of administrative processes. The author believes the implementation of information and communication technologies is an important area for achieving greater efficiency of public administration.
 The purpose of the article is to conduct a retrospective review and systematization of regulatory and legal support of Ukraine on the implementation of e-governance aimed at modernizing the administrative processes taking place in public administration.
 The author examines the regulations on informatization, e-governance and digital transformation in terms of the main stages of administrative processes, namely: task definition; preparation for management decisions; decision making; bringing it to the recipients and organization of execution; control over the implementation of the decisions.
 The author concludes that since the proclamation of Ukraine’s independence in 1991 to the present in regulations on the introduction of information and communication technologies in public administration areas of public policy in the field of informatization and e-governance have significantly changed the administrative processes in public administration bodies. The author states that at the first stages of informatization of public administration in regulatory and legal support the greatest attention in the introduction of information and communication technologies was paid to the main stages of administrative processes. According to the author, the basic principles of information society development in Ukraine, with their focus on citizen participation in governance, have influenced all the main stages of administrative processes. To support, the author systematizes the main stages of information systems used in public administration, namely: information systems for statistical presentation of information are introduced for the stage of «task definition»; information-analytical systems are introduced for the stages «preparation for management decision-making» and «decision-making»; for the stages of «bringing it to the addressees of the decision», «organization of execution» and «control of execution of decisions» electronic document management systems are introduced.
 In the course of the analysis, the author finds out that the activities of public administration bodies such as «disclosure and access to public information» and «public services providing» in which administrative processes take place have become important. According to the author, the active phase of rule-making support of e-governance shows that the main focus is on providing administrative services in electronic form through web portals and mobile Internet services.