RUDN Journal of Public AdministrationRUDN Journal of Public Administration2312-83132411-1228Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2057610.22363/2312-8313-2018-5-2-200-206Research ArticleThe modernization of public administration in case of information society’s developmentSekirinaE E<p>-</p>sekirina_ee@rudn.universityPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)151220185220020620022019Copyright © 2018, Sekirina E.E.2018<p>The article actualizes the information societys formation as a postindustrial form of societys socio-economic organization based on the mass use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT). The growing rates of social development is followed by modification of the civil societys structure: network communities and organizations. In these conditions public authorities are forced to look for a new and more efficient technologies of administration (management). However, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII-2017), a gap in the innovative opportunities remains across in the world (experience of developed and developing countries) which shows the low level of public administration in new information conditions. The solution of this information inequality becomes possible only within an integrated approach, because the information society is a catalyst for the socio-economic development of a state. The analysis made it possible to actualize the problems of interaction between public administration and the society, provide possible ways of their solving to modernize the system of public administration. The collaboration between advanced ICTs such as Internet of Things (IoT) (smart city; smart environment) and public administration contributes to the progress in the field of sustainable development of a country in general.</p>public administrationinformation and communication technologiesinformation societyпубличное управлениеинформационно-коммуникационные технологииинформационное общество[Castells M. The Rise of the Network Society // New postindustrial wave in the West. Antology. P. 494. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444319514.][Ofitsial’naya stranitsa Mezhdunarodnogo soyuza elektrosvyazi. URL: https://www.itu. int/ru/ITU-D/Pages/publications.aspx#/.][Ofitsial’naya stranitsa IDI Rank 2017. URL: https://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/idi/2017/ index.html.][Global’nyy innovatsionnyy indeks otchet za 2017. URL: http://www.wipo.int/ publications/ru/details.jsp?id=4193. WIPO is the global forum for intellectual property services, policy, information and cooperation, a self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 191 member states.]