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1 The paper presents the main results of an expert survey aimed at determination the factors impacting e-participation development in Russia. The authors conducted an expert poll and systematized experts' assessments and proposals regarding the list of influencing factors and their strength. The list of the most influential factors and accompanying recommendations will help policy makers in their efforts to strengthen e-participation. Russian Federation has been selected as a typical case of a developing country attempting to follow international trends in e-participation development while facing considerable barriers and institutional traps. That is why the obtained results may be of interest to other Eurasian Union countries.

This paper addresses the important issue of open government data (OGD) development evaluation. The overview of existing approaches for open government data evaluation is given in the paper. The authors categorized five groups of OGD assessment approaches: data-oriented, use and user-oriented, program-oriented, scorecard and impact, network and ecosystem. After a brief description of each approach, the authors present recommendations for ways to address the complexity of OGD development.

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of (the theory and practice of) prosperity indicators for assessing the impact of governmental policies and the data sources associated to their calculation, touching also on the broad theme of Open Data which opens up new horizons for the calculation and exploitation of Social Indicators. Following a quick overview of the basics of prosperity indicators, their basic methodological principles and their typology, a presentation of the Policy Compass project approach and the description of its pilot application in St. Petersburg are provided, which are tackling the above mentioned issue with the provision of a powerful ICT platform.

The assessment of the development of the information society could bring information about changes needed for sustainable development. As the information society has grown to become an ever-more critical part of the competitiveness of nations, a wide range of indicators, composite indices and international rankings have been developed to compare national performance. Based on Russia's official targets and documents, four of the leading composite indices on ICT development were selected for analysis: e-Government Development Index, Network Readiness Index, Knowledge Economy Index and ICT Development Index. The researches selected a gap analysis method for describing Russia's weaknesses in world rankings. The study resulted in a list of recommendations to improve information society development in Russia.

This paper describes the experience of ongoing project 'Increasing capacity of local governments in providing e-services in Ida-Virumaa-Leningrad oblast cross-border areas' (ELRII-470), implemented under Cross Border Cooperation Program of the ENPI Estonia-Latvia-Russia 2007--2013. Lessons learned from this project seem interesting to learn and use in similar projects.

This article considers the results of a comparative analysis of three e-petition portals in: Russian, the UK and the USA. The authors have developed a set of comparison criteria and identified similarities and differences in the will expression process development of citizens from various countries on the Internet. The advantages of the UK portal are as follows: simple registration, open petition publishing, clear attachment to the petition-reviewing authority. The US portal is considered to be much more practical when compared to the non-electronic petition filing procedure in the country and, moreover, it continues to collect signatures after the submission to the authority. The Russian portal is notable for its clear separation and representation of initiatives on the federal, regional and municipal levels.

In this paper the analysis of e-governance monitoring methods is given. The article includes international measurement techniques description. The authors introduce expert poll methodology for e-governance development assessment and the results of it's application in Russia.

Electronic governance has received much interest worldwide and a significant amount of attention and money is being put into making e-governance a reality. Proper assessment of e-governance projects gives us crucial information on the kinds of changes needed in order to make them successful.International ratings are extremely important in relation to comparing the achievements of different countries, analysing their experiences and making decisions about further development. On the other hand, a country's ranking position forms or adjusts the world's attitude toward this country.This article discusses the possible problem when a high position in such ranking becomes an aim in itself and determines the misdirection of e-Governance development -- in this, the case we have chosen to study is Russia.

This paper argues that access to public e-services encourages citizen engagement in the e-government policy making processes and the further empowerment of citizens through participation in the democratic processes of developing/transitional countries like Tajikistan. It presents e-citizenship, with e-participation as its driving force, as a phenomenon concerned with the transformation of the citizen's role and status from the e-government periphery to the e-democracy core. This transformation is mainly based on three models of e-participation, namely: push, pull and interactive. To find evidence of this transformation the five distinct types of individual instrumental freedom, identified by Amartya Sen, were tested against these models. An analytical framework, adapted from the Sen's capability approach theory, was applied to analyse the revealed evidence. A profile of e-citizens and their attributes were identified to evaluate their role in Tajikistan.