THE CONCEPT OF “DIGITALIZATION OF STATE POWER” AS THE BASIS OF THE CONCEPT OF THE DIGITAL STATE
Authors: Nadzhafli Emin Nadzhafli Emin 
Published: April 2022

The aim of the article is to develop a definitive basis for the concept of the digital state, the core of which is the concept of “digitalization of state power”, as well as the disclosure of its features. The article draws attention to the fact that the digitalization of state power means a component of digitalization of public relations, which has a natural, appropriate, regulatory nature, is aimed at the functioning of a special object (system of public authorities), provides integration of public authorities and information-communication technologies in order to create a qualitatively new, digital environment for the functioning of state power and its interaction with society, is manifested in the purposeful and comprehensive impact of information and communication technologies on the system of public authorities in order to transform its institutional, functional and regulatory components and achieve these parameters of a qualitatively new state, within which the implementation of state power is maximally synchronized with the will of society and is under its constant control. The main features of digitalization of state power are as follows: 1) proactive, orderly and purposeful nature; 2) innovative nature; 3) the presence of a special facility (system of public authorities and the order of their operation); 4) the presence of special entities – public authorities that initiate, implement and control the processes of digitalization; subjects of civil society that contribute to the initiation of digitalization, implementation of its models, analyze its course and results; international organizations that promote digitalization, provide the necessary recommendations and information and analytical assistance to public authorities, ensure the transmission of best practices in the digitalization of public authorities); 5) regulatory and legal nature; 6) permanent character; 7) security value for the functioning of the entire system of state power; 8) the transformative effect of information and communication technologies in the digitalization of state power; 9) the combination of traditional forms of government with new forms of e-government, which allow to ensure the full participation of the people in the exercise of public power, will make it permanent; 10) provision of most public services in electronic form; 11) fixation of new – digital human rights and digital responsibilities of the state, which correlate with each other; 12) procedural nature, which means that the digitalization of state power involves the following components: technological (technology implementation), regulatory (legislative support), transformational (change of institutions and functions of public authorities), social (public perception of these transformative innovations in public administration); 13) implementation of management processes in electronic form, their formalization, standardization and significant acceleration, minimization of paper media in the official document flow in accordance with the principle of paperless; 14) a high level of systematization of official data available to public authorities, keeping them up to date, minimizing the subjective factor in their use and disposal.