Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ (Dec 2019)
Current State and Problems of Information and Analytical Provision of the Ukrainian Local Public Administration Activities Mechanisms
Abstract
The article analyzes the current state and problems of information and analytical provision of local public government activities in Ukraine by means of comparative-critical analysis of, first of all, the structure of relevant state administrations, and secondly, the presence of information and analytical provision departments in the state administrations structure, their names and quantity, and thirdly, these divisions’ functions and tasks, and, fourth, the general problems of formation and validation of the information and analytical provision of the Ukrainian local public administration activities mechanisms. The study was aimed at comparing the current status of the information and analytical provision departments tasks to their basic theoretical purpose of collecting, generalizing, processing information anddeveloping information and analytical documents which are necessary for the making effective management decisions. For comparative analysis of the current state of the information and analytical provision of local public government activities the two groups of local state administrations of different levels have been selected. The content and trends of the current state of the processes of information and analytical provision of local public government activities are revealed by the example of eight local state administrations, regional and district levels. Based on the results of the comparative analysis, we identified important trends within the processes of information and analytical provision of local authorities activities in Ukraine: the country lacks holistic information and analytical provision system for local public government activities; the country's system of public power needs unification or systematic regulations of structural divisions dealing with information and analytical provision of local authorities; local state administrations have not yet built and are not even planning to create their own information databases covering various areas of public administration, social, political, economic and cultural situation, and databases of the regional development, of sectoral statistics or other fields; local state administrations pay little attention to information security and protection of information resources of public administration; regional and district state administrations lack separate subdivisions that would be strictly specialized in information and analytical provision of local authorities (usually, information and analytical provision of local authorities is considered an addition to other roles, ranging from the structural and communication functions to the legal one); on the whole, the overall system of information and analytical provision of local authorities in this country is still at the concept stage of its development.
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