Abstract: The research subject is information culture in the system of municipal education administration. The research object is informatization of municipal education administration. The authors consider the information culture model consisting of five main elements:1. Informational competence of municipal officers2. Information and technical support for education management3. Communication between administration entities.4. Informational competence of consumers of educational services.5. Information and legal provision of education managementSpecial attention is paid to the analysis of each element, which is held on the basis of statistical data and scientific publications. The main methods of research are the methods of analysis, generalization and comparison, the structural method, the methodology of statistical data studying, the elements of the information approach. The main findings of the study are:1. The existing information culture models don't take into account the two important elements related to the IT-competencies of the subjects of management and the consumers of educational services.2. The study of these two components in municipal entities shows that they are still underdeveloped as compared to other components; this situation leads to the reduction of the level of information culture in general.3. The article substantiates the necessity to use the five-element model of information culture, which should serve as the basis for the development of municipal programs of education informatization. 

Abstract: The subject of the present research is the role of information inequality in the implementation of government programs on informational support of municipal management. In our country informational support of municipal administration is being conducted as part of the Strategy of the Information Society Development in the Russian Federation and administrative reform. However, today's information inequality between federal, regional and municipal centers does not allow to effectively implement the informational support of municipal management. In particular, the authors of the article focus on the problems of execution of the government program 'E-government' at the municipal level. The main reserch methods applied by the authors include the methods of analysis, generalization and analysis of statistical data. The research has been carried out according to the general-to-specific principle. In the course of their research the authors have come to the conclusion that information inequality of municipal units of different regional and federal centers put breaks on the informatization of municipal management. The causes of such information inequality are the low quality of life in municipal districts and the low level information culture of municipal units and population.