Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted the Concept of E-Governance Development in Ukraine at the cabinet meeting on December 13, 2010. Concept development was initiated, organized and financially supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted the Concept of E-Governance Development in Ukraine at the cabinet meeting on December 13, 2010. Concept development was initiated, organized and financially supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.
Work on drafting the concept began in February 2009 in the frames of the signed Memorandum of Cooperation between the State Committee of Informatization of Ukraine and the International Renaissance Foundation. The working group includes leading Ukrainian experts in the field of electronic governance: Oleksandr Baranov, Maryana Demkova, Serhiy Dziuba, Andriy Yefanov, Ihor Zhyliayev, Eduard Klepets, Tetyana Popova, Ihor Ruban, Andriy Semenchenko and Svitlana Chukut, as well as international experts, representatives of the eGovernance Academy of Estonia – Arvo Ott and Yuri Misnikov.
In 2009, a public discussion of the document took place, including discussions in the Public Council at the State Committee of Informatization of Ukraine and Council of Entrepreneurs at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Public opinion was published in the “Mandates to Candidates for the President of Ukraine” at the Forum of Public Council on Information and Communication Technologies “On Imperative Measures for the Information Society Development in Ukraine”, December 17, 2009. It was proposed in the opinion to “recognize the development of e-democracy and e-governance, which largely provide for development of information society in Ukraine, as one of the national priorities. To draft and adopt the Concept of E-Governance Development in Ukraine aimed at further reforming of public administration, ensuring transparency and openness of authorities, achieving European standards of the quality of electronic administrative services for business and citizens. To develop and approve a state program for implementing e-governance technologies as an action plan for Concept implementation.”
The International Renaissance Foundation promoted the creation of the National Center of E-Governance in April 2010 and its further activities.
Contact person: Olesya Arkhypska, Information and Communication Activities Director of the IRF, manager of the direction “Electronic governance. Electronic democracy”, tel.: +(38) 044 461 97 09, arkhypska@irf.kiev.ua
