EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF LEGAL REGULATION OF USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

Public authorities are going through a new stage of introduction and use of information technologies within the framework of the National Program «Digital Economy of the Russian Federation». This process is called digitalization of public administration and is characterized by the complexity of approaches to the transformation of the work of the state apparatus. An analysis of the experience of implementing this project since 2017 showed that it was not possible to reverse the situation with "patchwork" automation and departmental information wells. The author of the article substantiates the hypothesis that one of the reasons for this is the lack of a concept that determines the result of the use of information technologies in public administration. For this purpose, the following methods were used: classification, systematization, legal modeling, analysis and synthesis. While information law and the entire jurisprudence consider the specifics of regulating the process of digitalization, it is impossible to stimulate and motivate public authorities to the final result. Having analyzed domestic and foreign experience, the author suggests using the concept of «digital state», which will be able to accumulate the main results of the process of digitalization of public administration. The absence of this or a similar legal category will not solve the problem of «digitalization for the sake of digitalization». The results of the research can be used to continue the scientific development of the concept of «digital state», to develop draft normative legal acts regulating the use of information technologies in public administration, to train lawyers in higher educational institutions.