Analysis of the modern state of electronization of governance activity

This article considers the modern approaches to get to the essence of the notions «electronic gover- nance» and «electronic government», as well as principles of electronic government functioning. Elec- tronic government is a standing characteristic of the actively developing countries. A major role in the process of rapid development of state – governance activity is to intensify the governance process through ICT. There have been given the examples of modern foreign and domestic experience of electronic governance development. There have been drawn the conclusions regarding main problems that put the brakes on the electronic governance development in Ukraine and there have been offered ways to overcome them.