Legal Risks of Digitalization of Public Administration

The paper is devoted to the examination of the concepts of “digitalization,” “digital transformation” and interrelationship between the concepts at issue with the concepts of “informatization” and “robotization.” The author provides his own interpretation of the concept “digitalization of public administration” and defines it as the process of introduction of digital technologies to the work of state bodies, which allows them to carry out qualitative transformation in the implementation of public functions and provision of public services, and to ensure effective interaction between citizens and the State. At the same time, digital transformation implies specific socially significant results appearing due to the application of digital technologies in public administration. The author substantiates such an approach when digitalization is seen as a public administration solution and defines legal risks, namely: a large number of simultaneously acting documents that have different states and regulate digitalization of public administration; lack of uniformity of tasks, objectives and measures aimed at achieving them in the fundamental documents. Such fundamental documents include: ”Digital State (IT State)” Subprogram and the federal project “Digital Public Administration.” The paper also describes serious deficiencies in the structure and contents of the passport of the federal project under consideration.