Features and Perspectives of Digitization in Kazakhstan

Abstract

In December 2017, the government of Kazakhstan adopted the program “Digital Kazakhstan”. New strategies of digitization are implemented with different levels of success in different countries, and the concept “digitization” has two decades of development and more than eighty years of scientific gnoseology. The purpose of the work is to analyze the features and perspectives of digitization in Kazakhstan by the example of such direction as functioning of E-government. The authors use quantitative methods of research, including systematization and processing of statistical data with the help of correlation and regression analysis. On April 12, 2006, Kazakhstan adopted the system of E-government. Kazakhstan is ranked 33rd in the global ranking of the UN according to the level of development of e-government. Despite the activity of the people of Kazakhstan during usage of the e-government portal, the issue of information security of personal data is still topical. The main barrier and a vivid contradiction is full mismatch between the tasks of digitization and the critically low level of access to broadband Internet. The program “Digital Kazakhstan” does not contain the measures that develop human capital in this direction, as well as other institutional measures that ensure “creation of conditions for transition of the economy of Kazakhstan to a completely new trajectory of development, which ensures creation of digital economy of the future in the long-term”.