Leadership and e-government: a comparative analysis of the Republic of Belarus and Russian Federation

摘要

This paper focuses on the issues of building and maintaining an effective and leading system of e-government using an example of two neighbouring countries. We demonstrate that the current model of e-government organization that exists in operation both in the Russian Federation and in the Republic of Belarus is not effective enough and requires certain institutional restructuring and fine tuning. We also argue that this restructuring can be achieved using the mechanisms of interdepartmental interaction for achieving leadership in the development of e-government. Moreover, it appears that in both countries in question there is a clear need for creating a unified regulatory framework in the form of a systematic set of legislative provisions presented in the form of a kind of electronic statehood code which should become a set of rules and regulations specifying relations in the area of e-government functioning on the territory of both states in question.