ELEKTRONSKA DEMOKRATIJA I ELEKTRONSKO GLASANjE

Active participation of citizens and their participation in social activities is increasingly taking place in the virtual space, the use of the internet and new digital technologies, raising questions about understanding and defining the concept of electronic democracy. One cannot talk about the existence of democracy in society unless there is active participation of citizens in deciding all the most important issues of that society (citizens' participation). If citizens do their daily activities more and more using digital technologies, then naturally it raises the issue of their activities in deciding the most important issues in society, also digitally. An important link in the legitimacy and institutionalisation of this process is the electoral process. Modern constitutional systems base the electoral process on guaranteeing equal voting rights for all participants in the process. In this sense, it is also important to determine the notion of electronic voting as an important element of the electoral process within electronic democracy. If we start from the fact that modern technology is included in the process of electronic voting, which is not equally available to all citizens, then the issue of ensuring the equality of participants in this election process is set as one of the basic issues and the biggest challenges of a modern high-tech society.

Digest of U-Report surveys: 2nd quarter of 2021 (internships and employment, electronic democracy, social media and media literacy)

The paper presents the results of surveys of the innovative youth project U-Report for April – June 2021: internships and employment of young people, the use of e-democracy tools by young people, spending time on social media, media literacy.

Electronic (Online) Voting in Ukraine: Realities and Prospects

The article considers the process of introduction of electronic voting in the electoral systems of modern countries and the condition of implementation of electronic democracy instruments in Ukraine. The main normative legal acts that have been adopted in recent years and the international experience of using the online voting system are analyzed. Prospects for further introduction of electronic voting in Ukraine, the main problems and possible ways to solve them are highlighted.

MODERN CONDITIONS FOR INTRODUCTION OF ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY IN DOMESTIC PUBLIC GOVERNANCE: REGIONAL ASPECT

The article is devoted to the analysis of the conditions that characterize the current state of e-democracy as a tool of public administration in Ukraine. The domestic normative and legal support of the phenomenon of e-democracy, social peculiarities of regional use of e-democracy in public administration, the institutional composition of the subjects of introduction of e-democracy in the public administration have been considered. The periodization of the development of domestic e-democracy has been analyzed, which includes 4 periods: preparatory, formation of e-government mechanisms, creation of electronic information system, and implementation of information system. A thorough analysis of the legal framework of this area of research allowed establishing the spread of regulations on general issues of legitimizing the transparency of government and note that the focus of the legislator shifts to creating a legal basis for specific mechanisms of e-democracy. The existence of regional inequality in the implementation and use of e-democracy has been established. This inequality is caused by two aspects: technological, which manifests itself in the insufficient provision of certain regions with Internet coverage, and educational, which is expressed in the lack of digital literacy in certain categories of the population. It has been stated that regulatory and legal support for the implementation of the studied tool of public administration can be positively assessed: the phenomenon of e-democracy is enshrined in the legal field, regulatory algorithms for its individual mechanisms – e-services, e-petitions, e-government are provided and more. The institutional level of the implementation of e-democracy in the domestic public administration manifests itself in the interaction of government, public, business and independent non-governmental structures, including the European level. Such a diverse institutional composition, along with the adoption of various legislative and administrative measures, testifies to the positive transformational shifts of Ukrainian society, the process of its real transition to the state of information society – a knowledge society focused on meeting the needs of citizens.