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Digital Identity as the Element of Concept of Service-Oriented State
Digital Identity as the Element of Concept of Service-Oriented State

Author(s): Vira Tokareva
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Law and Transitional Justice, Public Administration, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Administrative Law
Published by: Societatea de Stiinte Juridice si Administrative
Keywords: digital identity; digital self; e-government; e-service; digital profile (account);
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to consider the digital identity as a key element of the service-oriented state (e-governance). In the first section the background of developing the service-oriented state in the EU and Ukraine are discussed. It has been established that with the spread of Covid-19, The Government of Ukraine declared on course towards of paperless public services. Due to the full-scale escalation of conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Government of Ukraine speed- up the processes of transforming public administrative services into e-services. Digital identity is supposed to be one of the elements of e-governance alongside with remote identification (biometric authentication), the digital money, secure payments and online banking etc. In the second section the category of digital identity and close related categories are revealed. The differences between digital identity, digital profile (account), avatar and electronic entity are proved. On the basis of the conducted research, the features and constituent elements of digital identity were determined and proposals were developed to improve the legislation in Ukraine. The necessity to study the digital identity as the essential component of service-oriented state, online banking, e-commerce and in light of the War in Ukraine and seeking way of renovation legislation is founded.