Digital sovereignty of a modern state in the context of technological transformations: content and features

The study of the content and features of the phenomenon of digital sovereignty of a modern state seems to be an extremely urgent research task in the context of intensive digital technological transformations taking place in the world. The digitalization of crucial spheres of the state's life gives rise to new challenges, threats and risks in relation to ensuring state sovereignty. An analysis of the current practice of digitalization demonstrates the formation of the destructive potential of digital technologies in the aspect of countries preserving their independence in the context of global digitalization. To solve the set task, the authors chose a research methodology that includes a systematic approach, a critical analysis method used to analyze the current practice of digitalization, a scenario forecasting method that was necessary to identify possible scenarios for global digital transformations, a discourse analysis method that made it possible to analyze existing today relevant approaches to understanding digital sovereignty in the scientific and expert environment, as well as the case study method, with the help of which real examples of digitalization of key spheres of life of a modern state were analyzed. Based on the results of the study, the paper concludes that the digital sovereignty of the state has several important dimensions, including the socio-political, socio-economic and managerial dimensions. The authors substantiate in the work that digital sovereignty is an emergent property of the state as a complex system, resulting from the combination of the digital technology infrastructure of the state with the competencies and skills of its political, economic, public, social and administrative institutions, as well as citizens. Also, based on the results of the work, it was determined that digital sovereignty is characterized by the capabilities and capabilities of independent use by the state and its institutions of digital technologies and data as a resource for achieving national goals.