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The term ‘e-governance’ was introduced into scientific circulation relatively recently. In the early 1990s, there were active discussions regarding the essence of this term. Initially, ‘e-governance’, as a scientific definition, was disclosed by researchers in the context of information society theory; the discussion then continued in the media. In 1997, the term ‘e-governance’ was first used in the text of a regulatory legal act in the United States of America, by the National Science Foundation as part of the Advanced Technology Program.
‘E-governance’ was (and continues to be) a term with a wide meaning. This creates many problems in understanding the essence of this phenomenon, which is related to legal ideas about the essence and content of management processes in a company. In Russian science, the phrase ‘electronic governance’ is used according to its direct translation from English.
The foundations of scientific ideas about e-governance were laid by foreign authors: T. Becker (2000), C. Bellamy (1998), D. Garson (2006), J. Fountain (2000), D. Norm (2007), M. Moon (2005), V. Peristeras, K. Tarabanis, T. Tsekos (2008), and R. Heeks (2001). E-governance has also become the subject of a study by Russian scientists. Contributions to the comprehensive study of e-governance were made by M. Yu. Braude-Zolotaryov (2017), A. V. Danilin (2019), V.I. Drozhzhinov (2020), S. A. Dyatlov (2020), Yu. M. Irkhin (2019), A. V. Kuznetsov (2019), I. N. Kuzmina (2021), M. Yu. Pavlyutenkova (2020), A. V. Pavroz (2020), and V. N. Yakimets (2020).