The phenomenon of contemporary state's digital sovereignty in the context of global technological transformations: content and features

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to study the content, structure and functions of the phenomenon of digital sovereignty, which is primarily associated with the active introduction of digital communication technologies into the current political and socio-economic practice, acting as an influential factor in transforming modern approaches to understanding and ensuring national sovereignty as in political, and in the economic dimensions, as well as generating global challenges and risks in the field of geopolitical security of modern states. The object of the research was modern extraterritorial and distributed digital technologies, which are currently actively used in socio-political and socio-economic practice. The subject of the research - peculiarities of the transformation of the structural, functional and substantive content of the phenomenon of national digital sovereignty in the context of digitalization of the socio-political and economic spheres of its life vital for the state. The paper analyzes the current practice of digitalization of modern states and societies, based on which the key risks, challenges and threats are identified that are of most significant importance in the formation and provision of national digital sovereignty in the context of modern technological transformations. Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR and EISR, project number 20-011-31396.
 Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RFBR and EISR, project number 20-011-31396.

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