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Lyudmila Bershadskaya
e-Gov Center, Analytic
V.O., Birzhevaya line, 14, office 270
199034, St.Petersburg, Russia
+7812-457-1796
analytics@egov-center.ru
e-Government in Russia: Is or Seems?
ABSTRACT
Electronic governance has received much interest worldwide and
a significant amount of attention and money is being put into
making e-governance a reality. Proper assessment of egovernance
projects gives us crucial information on the kinds of
changes needed in order to make them successful.
International ratings are extremely important in relation to
comparing the achievements of different countries, analysing their
experiences and making decisions about further development. On
the other hand, a country’s ranking position forms or adjusts the
world’s attitude toward this country.
This article discusses the possible problem when a high position
in such ranking becomes an aim in itself and determines the
misdirection of e-Governance development – in this, the case we
have chosen to study is Russia.
Categories and Subject Descriptors
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY; K.4.1 Public Policy Issues;
K.4.3 Organizational Impacts; K.5.2 Governmental Issues; K.6.1
Project and People Management - Strategic information systems
planning
General Terms
Management, Measurement
Keywords
E-Government, Public Policy, Goals, Ranking
1. INTRODUCTION
The assessment of e-government development held by the
Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
in 2012 [1] showed that the Russian Federation (hereinafter RF or
Russia) has achieved outstanding success and raised its rating
from 59th position in 2010 to 27th place in 2011.
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Andrei Chugunov
e-Gov Center, Director, PhD
V.O., Birzhevaya line, 14, office 270
199034, St.Petersburg, Russia
+7812-457-1796
chugunov@egov-center.ru
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Dmitrii Trutnev
e-Gov Center, Deputy Director, CISA
V.O., Birzhevaya line, 14, office 270
199034, St.Petersburg, Russia
+7812-457-1796
trutnev@egov-center.ru
At the same time, other ratings do not show the same success in
other areas of Russia’s economic and political life. This
discrepancy can be clearly seen in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Russian Federation Rankings
For comparison, the status and trends of other indicators of the RF
were used as follows: GCI Global Competitiveness Index
rankings [2], IMD Global Competitiveness Index rankings [3],
World Bank Government Effectiveness Index [4], World Bank
Knowledge Index & Knowledge Economy Index [5], Legatum
Prosperity Index [6], Human Development Index [7], Doing
Business 2011 [8] and Corruption Perceptions Index [9]. The
question that the authors raise is as follows: is the formation of e-
Government development plans influenced by world rankings?
Research methods proposed:
- Analysis of the motives of decision-makers in government
and their reflections on the adopted legislative acts that define
e-Government development plans in Russia.
- Analysis of e-Government objectives stated in the adopted
legislative acts and their relationship with the common e-
Government goals and the indicators used in some rankings.