The Public Government System Transformation in the Digital Era

Abstract

Digital transformations are the defining trend of the current society development stage. Digitalization covers all areas of human life, identifying both opportunities and threats. The state is called to ensure the use of digital development, creating an appropriate institutional and legal environment, institutional infrastructure, and eliminate the negative effects of digitalization, which highlights the study. The aim of the study is to determine the content and features of modern transformations of the Ukrainian public administration system in conditions of digitalization and promising areas of administrative state influence to realize the potential of digital technologies in various fields. The methodological basis of the study are methods of systems analysis, functional analysis, index. The study considers the categories of "public administration", "transformation", "digitalization", based on the generalization of which the content of transformations of the Ukrainian public administration system in conditions of digitalization is determined and structured. It analyzes the index of digital economy and society, which characterizes the digital development of EU countries and emphasizes the key role of digitalization processes. The paper groups the directions of digitalization in public administration and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of digitalization for public administration. The authors also consider the main tasks of public administration on digital transformation and describe the international cooperation of Ukraine on digital transformation processes. Based on the analysis, they substantiate the need to develop the state concept of digital competencies in order to eliminate digital gaps and digital "inequalities". The practical significance of the study is identifying promising areas for further transformation of the public administration system in order to ensure the use of the benefits of digital development. Important areas of further research are the development of security technologies for digital rights guarantees, educational digital models, the development of the model of public administration platform and simplification of public services, the formation of the digital economy model - the product state.