RESULTS OF APPLICATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MECHANISMS IN THE FIELD OF INFORMATION SPACE SECURITY PROTECTION IN THE MEDIUM TERM

Abstract

The use of public administration mechanisms in the field of information space security, as well as any intervention in the information space, depending on its nature and focus, will have a number of serious consequences in the short, medium and long term. Governments usually try to define development strategies in various areas. Most of them are enshrined in documents, and Ukraine is no exception. Reactions or actions, including in the field of information space security, which are designed for short-term consequences and respond to daily problems and challenges, cannot be ignored, as this is the main part of the work of both direct executors and decision-makers in the field of public administration. At the same time, the consequences of actions and effects in the medium term, which lie between the level of strategic planning and everyday tasks, are sometimes deprived of the attention of specialists and require additional research due to the peculiarities of their elaboration. The purpose of the proposed study is to find ways to improve the efficiency of public administration mechanisms in the field of information space security protection by analyzing the historical and current medium-term effects of information space control measures by state institutions. The objective of the study is to analyze historical sources, scientific papers, official reports and journalistic materials that provide an opportunity to study the problems of functioning of public administration mechanisms in the field of information space security protection in the context of repulsion of the Russian large-scale invasion by the Ukrainian Defense Forces with intensive use of information space control measures by various actors in the context of assessing the medium-term effects (unintended consequences) of such measures. The scientific novelty of the study and its results lies in a comprehensive consideration of the problematic issues of modern public administration in the field of protection of the security of Ukraine’s information space related to the active conduct of information actions by participants in filling the information space with an emphasis on the consequences of such actions in the medium term in the context of repulsion of a large-scale Russian invasion by the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Methodology. The following methods of scientific research were used in the course of the study: historical, comparative analysis, retrospective analysis, analysis and synthesis, deduction, induction, systemic and structural, linguistic, formal and logical. The conclusions. The work of state mechanisms in the field of information space security provides for effects in the medium term in the form of the results of a set of synchronized information actions, namely, stable changes in assessments, beliefs, attitudes of various interconnected target audiences, on the basis of which it is possible to continue further implementation of the state information and communication policy in order to gradually approach the achievement of the strategic effect of communication activities. For successful planning and organization of information actions and operation of public administration mechanisms in the field of information space security protection, it is not enough to use available mechanisms and systems of automatic monitoring of the information space, proper personnel selection and high-quality individual training of specialists, which together can provide information actions of the tactical level. The medium-term perspective (the operational level of information and communication activities) already requires well-coordinated work of complex organizational structures and their teams, detailed analysis and forecasting of actions of participants in filling the information space and clear ongoing coordination with both the state leadership, which defines strategic tasks, and direct executors operating at the tactical level, provided that the principles of quality leadership are observed and that officials and institutions of information and communication have sufficient authority. Given the intensity and scale of the hostilities that are being conducted as part of Ukraine’s repulsion of Russia’s large-scale invasion, supported by a full arsenal of destructive information and psychological influence, the most suitable for use may be the methods of analysis and scenarios of information actions that were developed and tested not in civilian spheres (political, economic or other competition), but specifically to counteract (level, minimize the effects of) the destructive information and psychological influence of the military enemy. Prospects for further research are seen in the study of the strategic effects of the mechanisms of public administration in the field of information space security (in the long term).