Svitlak (2020) paid significant attention to the
problems of regulating civil relations in the
digital space. Frolova (2020) drew attention to
the peculiarities of the state policy of stimulating
the processes of digital transformation of small
and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine.
Some issues of the development of the legal
system in the digital era were investigated by
Telychko and Rekun (2022). According to the
authors, the digitalization of legal reality
contributes to the formation of new civilizational
phenomena and processes, and the emergence of
a new legal understanding, worldview, and legal
culture. It was also noted that the process of
rulemaking and law enforcement should become
digital. At the same time, attention was drawn to
the fact that the necessary technologies for this
already exist, but it is necessary to ensure their
correct application during the formation of
digital regulation processes.
Methodology
The methodological basis of the research is
general scientific and special methods of learning
state legal and law enforcement activities and
mechanisms of legal regulation of the digital
environment.
With the help of the historical method, it became
possible to analyze the main stages of the
formation of the electronic government system in
Ukraine and abroad. By its legal nature, the
historical method focuses on the origin and
evolution of the subject of research and is
indicated in a chronology of times and stages.
This method makes it possible to investigate the
emergence, formation, and development of
processes and events in chronological order in
order to identify internal and external
connections, regularities, and contradictions.
Therefore, in historical retrospect, the use of this
method is important for clarifying the regulatory
and legal regulation of the digital environment.
The study employed a systematic approach to
examine the foreign practices of implementing
state mechanisms for advancing e-government
and digitization within the public sector. It aimed
to identify the distinctive features of regulatory
and legal support for e-government in Ukraine.
The methodology involved selecting the most
overarching features and characteristics, as well
as formulating concepts, laws, and key ideas
related to the subject under investigation. Due to
the systematic approach, the basis of the
regulation of the state mechanism regarding the
information support of electronic government
based on the implementation of digital
technologies was also formed.
The application of methods of analysis and
synthesis was carried out when determining the
features of the conceptual foundations of
electronic governance, researching scientific
approaches to the definition of the concept of
"digital environment", "electronic governance",
key achievements and problems of the
implementation of digital capabilities of Ukraine,
determining, as well as analyzing directions for
improving the mechanisms of electronic
governance. In general, the method of analysis is
a method of research, which consists of the
imaginary dismemberment of the whole
phenomenon into constituent parts - simpler
ones, the selection of individual aspects,
properties, and connections. Synthesis is a
method of research, that consists of the
imaginary connection of separate sides,
properties, connections of a complex
phenomenon, and the understanding of the whole
in its unity. Therefore, without applying the
described methods, it is impossible to obtain
objective research results.
The structural-functional method was applied to
analyze the institutional framework for electronic
governance in Ukraine, define the state
mechanisms for the digital infrastructure of the
country, and establish the strategic objectives for
ensuring cybersecurity in Ukraine. In its essence,
a structural-functional method is an approach to
the description and explanation of systems,
which examines their elements and dependencies
between them within the framework of a single
whole; individual social phenomena perform a
certain function in maintaining and changing the
social system. Each element of this structure
performs certain functions that satisfy the needs
of the system. The activity of system elements is
programmed by the general structural
organization, the positions they occupy, and the
roles they perform. The structural-functional
method is one of the most important forms of
application of this method in the study of
management phenomena and processes because
it consists of dividing a complex object into its
constituent parts, studying the connections
between them, and determining the specific
functions (roles) inherent in them, directed to
meet the relevant needs of the personnel
management system, taking into account the
integrity of the latter and its interaction with the
external environment.
Using the method of comparative analysis, an
analysis of e-governance in Ukraine was carried