HOW CAN THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-GOVERNMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION INCREASE? BUILDING AN EXPLANATORY STATISTICAL MODEL

Abstract

The main premise from which we start in the construction of this article is that, in the contemporary era, the need for digitalization and facilitating access to public services has become an imperative in the vast majority of liberal-democratic states. Digitalization is an inevitable process in the natural course of the contemporary age, considering that its benefits have been more than tangible in the vast majority of cases, and e-Government is precisely a concretization of the benefits of digitalization. However, the development of e-Government is not a simple process, as it requires the presence of several factors, which this article will present, analysing their relevance. Moreover, in this article we will also note the main structural differences at European level in the implementation of e-Government: which countries have reached an advanced level of e-Government development, which countries have serious problems in developing e-Government and, above all, why these differences exist.

Keywords

• e-government
• digitalization
• european union
• corruption
• education