Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 15th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VI. Working Group on E-government Author(s) Evghenii Stirin Higher School of Economics Moscow Russian Federation Title The peculiarities of interaction between federal and regional level authorities in administrating electronic government in Russia File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Russia’s response to building global information society was reflected in State Federal Program “Electronic Russia” which can be considered as a main tool for Russian Federal Government in solving complex problems of country’s informatization. To manage effectively e-government processes in Russia means to build integrated information resources available not only on federal but also on regional and municipal levels of governance. The basic idea of this article is to underline the key role of Russian regions in forming the common model of electronic interaction among different level authorities. During the sociological research based on interview with public servants responsible for regional informatization in eight regions in which the author also took part it became possible to form a classification containing the three models of regional e-government in Russia. These are: •Partial or weak informatization •Chaotic, nonsystematic or extensive informatization •Manageable, systematic or transforming informatization. Each of the above mentioned models comprises such crucial for regional e-government development factors as: leadership, management authorities’ structure, interaction with civil society and business community, social capital, the quality of e-government strategy, economical indicators of a region. For federal center in Russia it will be necessary to pay attention to the way in which the collaboration with regional authorities in forming the national e-government architecture, scaling the typical IT-projects (such as electronic document management systems, geographical information systems, digital signature infrastructure, e-services portals, e.t.c.) can be built due to the high degree of asymmetry in regional economic and social development. The success in e-government development in Russia lies in the area of enabling more freedom to regional authorities’ e-initiatives and projects. In each of eight regions analyzed the crucial factor of e-government success or failure could be outlined. It turns out that social capital may be as important as the role of regional leader and the size of the e-government budget doesn’t bring the region to the immediate success due to the managerial problems in administrating public IT-projects.
