over the activities of the authorities; involvement of the population in the management
of public affairs; ensuring transparency of state activity; growth of the real level of
democratization of society. In this sense, an interesting phenomenon is the electronic
petition of the population to different levels of government, through which real
communication to the government structures of public needs and problems is carried
out.
However, it should be noted that the uncontrolled development of electronic
communication led to the creation of an anarchistic Internet community, which even
proclaimed the creation of a nationwide network of its own state and constitution.
An important role in electronic communication is played by modern electronic
document management systems. They provide an opportunity for rapid exchange of
information between units of one enterprise/institution/organization and between
different organizations or enterprises, effective control over execution of orders,
collective work with documents, saving of time and money, etc.
The main regulatory document on electronic document management is the Law
of Ukraine "On Electronic Documents and Electronic Document Management" dated
May 23, 2003 [42], which regulates relations that arise in the process of creating,
sending, transmitting, receiving, storing, processing, use and destruction of electronic
documents, and establishes the basic organizational and legal framework for electronic
document circulation and the use of electronic documents. The law declares that the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and other bodies of executive power, within the limits
of the powers specified by the Law, implement the state policy of electronic document
circulation.
The rapid growth of the amount of information used in the management of the
institution, its structural complexity and rapid updating makes it necessary to use
integrated systems of electronic document management. Effective implementation of
e-government technologies is impossible without the deployment of electronic
document management systems with the use of electronic digital signature
technologies. Electronic document circulation is one of the most important technical
elements of the e-government system, because it provides the circulation of electronic
documents, which are the basis of a new form of interaction between the state and
society. Chief Specialist of the Department of Civil Law and Entrepreneurship of the
Ministry of Justice, Yu. ChyrsÊıkyy, argues that e-governance is "an effective means of
ensuring information and access to information by individuals and legal entities, and
thus contributes to the transparency and efficiency of government activities" [6].
The widespread introduction of electronic document management requires
changes in the main paradigm of managerial workflow. Previously, management
document management was considered as one of the main office functions for ensuring
the processes of working with documents in an organization, but now it is a managed
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