The Development of the Process of Informatization, Digitalization and the Place of Information in the Kazakh Legal System

Abstract

The Republic of Kazakhstan is currently experiencing global changes and rapid development in the field of digitalization and information services. The issue of improving the regulatory and legal regulation of information turnover, provided through the use of information technologies, at the present stage is one of the most urgent for the country's management and financial systems. The question of the place of information in legislation, the direction in which the country is moving in the field of digitalization, is acute. The purposes of this article are: to investigate and draw conclusions about the success of the state programs adopted by Kazakhstan regarding digitalization; to determine the place of information in the array of civil law norms of the Republic of Kazakhstan, identifying existing gaps and contradictions, which are still numerous; to classify the information from the perspective of the civil law’s categories, analyzing data ownership concept from the perspective of Kazakh law system; to consider the category of digital asset in the Kazakh legislation - scientific discussions, legal consequences. Having analyzed the above, the final part of the article intends to draw a conclusion about significant shortcomings, questionable aspects and suggest ways to resolve them.