Digital economy and problems of security of Ukrainian trade and entertainment centers.

Abstract

The paper analyzes some security problems of several Ukrainian trade and entertainment centers, as well as the possibility and necessity of including important security issues in the state program for the development of e-governance (digital governance). The state of e-governance development in Ukraine has been considered. It has been proved that its level is high and has significantly improved over the past two years, and now meets today's global requirements. From the security point of view, the main (best) projects of trade and entertainment centers have been considered and risk factors and circumstances for the staff and visitors of shopping malls have been described on the basis of the data of inspections carried out by state security inspectorates. Some evacuation models to be used in the event of a fire and a probabilistic model of fire occurrence and spread are provided in the paper. Some software options for performing calculations are also offered. As a rule, these modern multi-functional service centers are built in Ukraine at the expense of foreign investments based on the norms of the investor countries. However, due to the inconsistency of the legal framework, there arise problems with the safety of staff and visitors, owners, and state security inspectors. The work proposes a concept of security control, which can be easily implemented on a computer, based on data on the reliability of object security systems. Since trade and entertainment centers having a large number of daily visits that will go on increasing are becoming mass culture objects, the concept of inclusion of the developed models and programs in the e-government programs has been developed. For example, before the beginning of the pandemic, the Magellan mall in Kyiv was visited by 30,000 people every day and the Ocean Plaza shopping center – by 60,000 people. This is approximately 2,000–5,000 visitors every hour. Therefore, in case of a fire, if people are not evacuated in time or the fire is not put out, there may be many victims. To prevent unwanted events whose statistics are constantly increasing, it is offered to solve the safety issues of trade and entertainment centers at the modern scientific level of the risk-oriented approach and the modern information level. The paper also considers a possible option of including security issues of shopping malls in the information technologies of e-government.