March 15, 2019, a training seminar was held by the lecturers of the Department of Political Sciences and Law of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky together with the students of the specialties "Law" and "Political Science": "Openness of public authorities: current situation and opportunities", within which the normative-legal framework of the issue, the open data platform, peculiarities of e-governance, e-democracy and e-services have been considered.