Legitimate Basis Research Articles

Towards a Democratic Singularity? Algorithmic Governmentality, the Eradication of Politics – and the Possibility of Resistance

This contribution steps back from considering the operation of AI within the legal process directly and considers a more foundational issue surrounding democracy, and the basic legitimacy for any legal system that can be gained from a connection with ‘the will of the people’. The first section considers briefly how the promise of online consultation has not fully delivered on its democratic potential. The paper then considers new developments in surveillance, where almost all aspects of everyday life are transformed into quantified data, and subject to monitoring and predictive analysis. It is argued that this amounts to a new, pervasive and totalising form of surveillance and control which can be understood best as a form of ‘algorithmic governmentality’. Building upon arguments about consultation, it is contended that developments in technology may in future have the effect of making existing ideas about consultation and democracy redundant as actual preferences can be measured directly without the need for an intermediary political process to represent preferences. This direct presentation of preferences, created by inference from the radical datafication process, offers a false emancipation by appearing to be, by its very nature, all-inclusive and accurate. This is a novel form of governance, seemingly beyond traditional politics and it is one that has the potential to undermine, and then transcend, many of fundamental attributes of citizenship which presently appear as part of the bargain within the government – governed relationship. This contribution seeks to explore the parameters of this development of ‘algorithmic democracy’, and the potential of law and other strategies to operate as resistance.

Legitimacy of uncertain policy work: Exploring values in local economic development projects

This article takes the standpoint that, due to high levels of uncertainty, local economic development work suffers from both input- and output-based legitimacy. Nevertheless, local governments are active development agents and try to come up with economic development initiatives. In order to better understand the legitimate basis for uncertain economic development work, this article offers an unconventional analysis of economic development projects. Drawing on scholars of organization theory, legitimacy is defined as congruence in values between the studied projects and the stakeholders in the surrounding environment. The article examines what kinds of values pervade local governments’ economic development projects. The empirical material is based on thick interview and observation data derived from a study of eight local development projects in Sweden. The results show that values of professionalization and deliberation pervade the analysed projects. Taking the two sets of values together, the results indicate that local government administration seeks to legitimize its economic development work as being based on professional directed processes of public deliberation. Both these sets of values challenge the local representative democratic system of government as the prime source of the legitimacy of local governments’ interventions.

Legal doctrine as a source of legal argumentation in the process of human rights protection

The article is devoted to determining the place of legal doctrine in the system of sources of law and substantiating its importance in the process of protection of human rights as a legitimate basis for legal argumentation. An analysis of current scientific research suggests that today there is no single unified perception of the category of legal doctrine among both legal theorists and law enforcers. The author points out a number of conflicting points that need to be finally resolved. In particular, there is no understanding from which point an idea, concept or view of law can be considered doctrinal. In this case, it is possible to use the experience of Western jurisprudence, which uses a variety of citation indices, which indirectly testifies to the authority of one or another scientific source, as well as informal lists of authoritative among judges of books of lawyers. Also open today is the question of securing binding reference to a specific scientific source by law enforcement entities in the process of reasoning of the decision. According to the author, the doctrine is a source of law in every case where law-makers or law-makers use scientific concepts, ideas, views when making legally significant decisions. The Constitution of Ukraine in Art. 129 by declaring that "the judge is independent and governed by the rule of law", in fact, enshrined the obligation to apply legal doctrine in the law enforcement process. In making its decision, a judge, when substantiating a certain legal position, has the right to refer not only to national legislation, but also to use the results of scientific papers, the findings of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, etc. At the same time, the problem of recognizing the legitimacy of decisions based on doctrinal approaches is important. Based on the thesis that law is a product of society, an expression of the public perception of justice, then the public will itself will be the primary source of law. No matter which of the official forms of law prevails in a particular legal system, it must be legitimized (recognized) by society, and therefore endowed with a high degree of authority. When analyzing a legal rule, it is necessary to distinguish its textual expression and its actual content. Legal doctrine, as a more dynamic phenomenon than official legal regulation, is able to formulate algorithms for finding the actual content of a rule of law in the context of its application. Given the tendencies in the evolution of legal regulation in the direction of deformation and decentralization, the phenomenon of legal doctrine can be explained using a differentiated approach to sources of law, distinguishing between "hard law" and "soft law" (soft law). By analogy, legal doctrine can be considered as an informal authoritative source of law, which is the intellectual basis of legal thinking and argumentation, formed within the jurisprudence and represents a set of scientifically sound ideas, concepts, views, which formulate effective models and standards for solving current problems of legal practice. Keywords: legal doctrine, human rights, sources of law, legal argumentation.

Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations*

Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations*

Cryptocurrency and Privacy: Economic Analysis of Law

The dynamic technology junction of Cryptocurrency and Privacy pose several implications to the existing economic and legal regulations. The present work intends to take up an economic analysis of the laws relating to Cryptocurrency in the context of Privacy. The concept of money and development of fiat currency with role of banking industry leads one to understand the background of Cryptocurrency basis, therefore a segment on the historic perspective of money, development of fiat money and role of banking industry as an intermediary are added in the present work. The technology of Blockchain used in Cryptocurrency transaction transmits the existing monetary regulations across the globe thereby challenging the financial systems. The economics of Cryptocurrency has generated sufficient interest and the present work surveys such interest. The most comprehensive regulation on Privacy and Data protection having a global impact is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EUGDP), which took effect in May 2018. The EUGDP Regulations by giving much needed importance and protection to the individual’s data privacy and security have altered the functionality of the Data driven companies such as Facebook, Google and others. The work takes a brief note of issues such as data controller and data processor identification, territorial and cross-border data transfer issues, legitimate bases for processing personal data and individual’s privacy rights as some of necessary compliance under the EUGDP Regulations that interact with the blockchain technology used under Cryptocurrency transactions. The conclusion suggests the need for economic analysis of laws relating to Cryptocurrency and Privacy for their intrinsic economic value.

Экстремистское сообщество как форма групповой экстремистской деятельности: вопросы теории и практики

The article touches upon both the doctrinal and the legal and technical problems in determining the signs of the extremist community as a form of group extremist activity. The analysis of scientific approaches, as well as interpretative acts of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which allowed to correlate the features of an organized group, a criminal and extremist community. The study showed that within the extremist community, taking into account the legislative wording and recommendations of the highest judicial authority, there is a mixture of signs of an organized group and a criminal community. In order to remove the identified intra-industry conflict, on the basis of the results obtained, changes to art. 2821 of the Criminal code, which provide a legitimate basis for recognizing an extremist community as a kind of criminal community.

The Role of Islamic Legitimacy Basis to Combat the Financial Corruption in Kuwait

The study aims to identify the role of Islamic Sharia to alleviate the problem of financial corruption in Kuwait. The researchers rely on the descriptive method. An extensive literature review was performed with regards to the legitimate ways to combat financial corruption. The study has conducted interviews with Kuwaiti religious officials who have a long experience in the field of financial corruption. Results indicate that the role of Islamic Sharia is almost absent due to the lack of religious officials’ intervention. Their role in the field of combating financial corruption should be activated and not only restricted to media. This fact had increased the level of financial corruption according to the annual financial corruption index. The study conveys important remarks. Kuwaiti official ministries and related organizations should embrace Islamic Sharia and rely on the wisdom of religious officials. To combat financial corruption, governments should reinforce the application of Sharia law in Kuwait since it was completely ignored in the past.

Developing a typology of the roles public contributors undertake to establish legitimacy: a longitudinal case study of patient and public involvement in a health network

ObjectiveTo identify how public contributors established their legitimacy in the functioning of a patient and public involvement programme at a health network.DesignA longitudinal case study with three embedded units (projects)...

Developing A Public Value Waste Management Framework in Traditional Market

The growth of trade activity impacts on increasing waste volume. One of the waste problem that becomes the attention of government is waste management in traditional market. Waste problem besides being challenging, can also be an opportunity, as well as waste management in Traditional Markets. This paper aims to explore the public value management theory that can be applied to the practice of waste management in traditional market. This paper is a literature review by examining journals related to waste management and public value. The results of various literature reviews will be used to developing a framework for analyzing public value in waste management in traditional market. This paper focuses on the developing of public values in the waste management in traditional market that could be classified of several aspects which are basic legitimacy and support; operational capabilities and substantial value. The result of paper create a framework to a public value in waste management in traditional market. This framework will make a theoretical contribution to the study of public service management.

Les représentations de la Révolution de 1917 dans le discours officiel en Russie contemporaine : le rôle de la doxa dans les stratégies discursives.


 
 
 Depuis la perestroïka, les représentations de la Révolution russe de 1917 ont subi des changements profonds, renversant le mythe révolutionnaire soviétique. Les dirigeants politiques russes des années 2000 font un usage sélectif de ces représentations transformées dans leurs stratégies discursives. Cet article interroge la façon dont la révolution est traitée dans l’espace communicatif du Kremlin, après la rupture avec la mythologie soviétique et au moment de la recherche d’une certaine continuité avec l’époque soviétique. En effet, le concept de révolution, avec des références aux événements et figures du moment révolutionnaire, est réactualisé dans le discours politique russe contemporain dès avant les « révolutions de couleur » dans l’espace postsoviétique. Ces bouleversements réduisant la distance entre l’usage du soft power et du hard power inquiètent le pouvoir russe et l’incitent à chercher des instruments d’autolégitimation dans la mémoire historique, en particulier dans celle des révolutions de 1917. Les représentations du moment révolutionnaire dans le discours du pouvoir russe contemporain s’appuient sur la doxa héritée de l’époque de la perestroïka. Cependant, certains éléments de cette doxa sont utilisés pour défendre le paradigme évolutionniste qui constitue le fondement de la légitimité du pouvoir. Cette étude montre ainsi comment les dirigeants russes contemporains parviennent à inscrire dans leurs stratégies d’autoreprésentation et d’argumentation les divers éléments constitutifs des nouvelles représentations de la révolution. L’article interroge la place des représentations de la révolution dans les procédés rhétoriques et discursifs de légitimation de Soi et de délégitimation de l’Autre.
 
 

ПРО СПІВПРАЦЮ ІНСТИТУТУ ОБДАРОВАНОЇ ДИТИНИ НАПН УКРАЇНИ І МАЛОЇ АКАДЕМІЇ НАУК УКРАЇНИ ЩОДО ЗАПРОВАДЖЕННЯ СПЕЦІАЛІЗОВАНОЇ ОСВІТИ НАУКОВОГО СПРЯМУВАННЯ

У доповіді розкрито основні напрями співпраці Інституту обдарованої дитини НАПН України та Малої академії наук України із запровадження спеціалізованої освіти наукового спрямування. Акцентується, що Закон України «Про освіту» створює легітимне підґрунтя для переорієнтації освітнього процесу з механічного заучування формального набору знання до розвитку дослідницьких компетенцій як універсальних особистісних пізнавально-креативних інструментів. Центральною тезою доповіді є судження, що ефективна імплементація норм Закону України із запровадження спеціалізованої освіти наукового спрямування у широку освітню практику неможлива без синергії основних стейкхолдерів освітнього процесу, які предметно займаються цією проблематикою, а саме: Інституту обдарованої дитини НАПН України та Малої академії наук України. Сьогодні синергія зусиль Інституту обдарованої дитини НАПН України та Малої академії наук України простежується на кількох рівнях: нормативне, науково-організаційне та науково-методичне забезпечення освіти наукового спрямування і міжнародне наукове співробітництво. Попри значні здобутки у сфері запровадження спеціалізованої освіти наукового спрямування в умовах реалізації концепції Нової української школи наголошується на низці необхідних кроків у найближчий перспективі, що сприятимуть як популяризації наукової освіти на вітчизняних теренах, так і підвищенню ефективності самого освітнього процесу в системі освіти України.

Indonesia’s DP Bill Lacks a DPA, Despite GDPR Similarities

Indonesia’s draft Law on the Protection of Personal Data was submitted by the President to the House of Representatives in January 2020. Although the responsible Minister stated that he expected the Bill would be the first legislation to be enacted in 2020, Indonesian experts soon expect delays as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and so it has eventuated, with parliamentary consideration continuing a year later.This article analyses the Bill in the context of other Asian data privacy laws and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The most striking aspect of the Bill is that it fails to include what is generally considered to be the essential element of a data privacy law: a separate, specialised (and usually independent) data protection authority (DPA). Instead, all enforcement powers are in the hands of the Minister of Communication and Information. There have been quite a few earlier versions of a data privacy Bill drafted by the Indonesian government, but all have involved a specialised DPA. In a recent version, the Public Information Commission was going to act as the DPA, a combination of data privacy responsibilities with Freedom of Information/Right to Information (FOI/RTI) responsibilities.Otherwise, there are many aspects of the Bill with similarities to the GDPR. Its obligations apply comprehensively, to individuals, corporations, public agencies and other institutions, and it has extra-territorial scope. Processing of personal data may only occur if it has a legitimate basis. Indonesia has adopted the term ‘personal data owner’, and gives such ‘owners’ eight types of rights with GDPR influences. Seventeen GDPR-influenced types of obligations apply to data controllers. The Bill allows exports of personal data from Indonesia in four situations, one of which involves a ‘white list’ of countries with a level of data protection to or higher than Indonesia’s law.The Bill makes a wide range of enforcement measures possible, including administrative fines and compensation, but the are all largely at the discretion of actions by the Minister, with the risk that inadequate enforcement will mean that the Bill will be ignored by both data controllers and data owners. The article concludes that Indonesia is trading influence for irrelevance, by abandoning the inclusion of a separate DPA. It could have had one of the strongest and most influential laws in Asia, but the absence of a data protection authority will mean that it does not.

Pandemi As A Reason Force Majeure In Contract Procurement Of Goods / Government Services

Procurement of goods and services is an effort to obtain the desired goods and services by doing it on the basis of logical and systematic thinking ( the system of thought ), following applicable norms and ethics, based on standard procurement methods and processes. However, when a pandemic event occurs, many activities of every person and institution related to the procurement of goods / services become impeded. The occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic required the state to prioritize the safety of the population, and therefore it was necessary to provide sufficient budget. This is what causes a shift which then makes the budget for procurement of goods / services significantly reduced, or even no more. Presence of Presidential Decree No. 12 of 2020concerning the Determination of Non-Disaster Spread of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) was not intended to make Covid-19 as a direct reason to cancel the contract. This becomes the reason and entrance for renegotiation with the reason that force majeure can certainly be based on Pasal 1244, Pasal 1245, and especially Pasal 1338 of the Civil Code . The legal effect of the presence of Presidential Decree on the Establishment of non-natural disasters Spreading Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) against the contract goods / services procurement of government is s epanjang condition of force majeure are met , the KDP has a legitimate basis in stopping the process of selection and contracting process based on propriety and justice and the principle of budget availability. Keywords: Force Majeure, Procurement Contract.

The design of literacy environment model in primary school

This research is motivated by the problem by the lack of a fixed model on how to support learning environment that can be beneficial for the development of literacy skills of primary school students in the early grade. The aim of this study is to create a legitimate basis for the development of environmental design and literacy learning for early childhood and early grade of primary school students. This study discussed the development of a model that would equip teachers with certain important aspects of the literacy environment that are suitable to be applied in primary schools. This study employed Educational Design Research. There were several stages employed in this study: conducting a literature study of the essential environment by reviewing the available models, comparing and contrasting the differences between the models from the learning environment available in the literature, deciding the model components of an essential literacy environment, and trying to create a theoretical model and prototypes. The results of this research suggest that the design of a literacy learning environment model should be used as a guide in developing literacy skills of primary school students in the early grade.

Accountability and Sustainability Transitions

What constitutes a sustainability transition? This question is important for analyzing energy transitions and in the broader realm of socio-material systems. We identify sustainability transitions as premised on changes in flows of legitimacy and on shifts in the accountability mechanisms that regulate these flows. Legitimacy flows to organisations through accountability regimes of inputs (standards and assessments), outputs (sanctions) and outcomes (structural and material change). This legitimacy allows organisations to access resources necessary to compete and to thrive. Changing accountability regimes lead to sectoral transitions, and the values underlying these changes determine implications for sustainability. We define accountability as the basis of legitimacy, and identify accountability relations as legitimacy tests. Conformance with norms yields legitimacy. Failing tests of accountability yields sanctions that undermine the relevant actions and actors. Contestation and adaptation of accountability mechanisms lend themselves to empirical observation. Their analysis evidences whether accountability is strongly substantiated, a hollow performance, or an expression of authoritarianism or radical liberalism. It enables characterisation of sectoral transitions in relation to sustainability, and identification of mechanisms to institutionalize accountability relations that integrate ecological limits and justice considerations into socioeconomic dynamics, to advance sustainability transitions. To demonstrate its explanatory power, we analyse solar energy uptake in Portugal, a rapidly growing niche, as a purported case of sustainability transitions. This empirical analysis juxtaposes the promise of movement to a more equitable, low-carbon energy future with institutional and material inertia. We draw on expert interviews, field observation and secondary research to apply accountability analysis to this energy transition case. Our approach targets both formal and informal means of legitimation. Assessment and sanctions serve as markers of the changing accountability regime that characterises sectoral transition.

СООТНОШЕНИЕ ДОГОВОРНОЙ И ДЕЛИКТНОЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТИ МЕДИЦИНСКОЙ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ПЕРЕД ПАЦИЕНТОМ

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation and legislation in the sphere of health care do not contain norms about the civil liability of a medical organisation to a patient. The issues of the correlation between these types of liability remain under-researched in the literature. There is no uniformity in judicial practice in resolving disputes in this area. The analysis of the literature and practice allows us to identify the distinctive features of contractual and tort liability of medical organisations. They include the imperative nature of norms on tort liability and dispositive nature of norms on contractual liability; contractual liability of a medical organisation to a patient is possible only if no harm to life or health is inflicted upon it - when such harm is inflicted, tort liability arises. The medical organisation's guilt or the patient's guilt in imposing contractual or non-contractual liability on a medical organisation is not the same. As a general rule, where there is a plurality of persons on the side of a medical organisation, joint and several liability arises in the event of non-contractual liability. The forms of contractual and non-contractual liability are different. It is generally accepted in the legal literature that liability for harm to a patient's health or life in the provision of paid medical services is in tort. However, due to the expanding scope of contractual regulation in medicine, the correctness of such provisions has come into ques-tion. It seems that the position on the priority of contractual liability of a medical institution has no legitimate basis (Art. 1084 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). In court prac-tice, regardless of the existence of a contract for the provision of paid medical services, in case of harm to the patient's health or life, the rules on torts are applied. The nature of increased liability for causing harm to a citizen's life or health stipulated by the contract is disputed in the literature. It appears that the contract for the provision of medical services may increase the amount of liability but may not change its nature, it remains a tort. As a rule, the issue of possible application of tort and contractual liability to a medical organisation at the same time is not specifically discussed in the literature. In court decisions holding a healthcare provider contractually liable, compensation for moral damage is referred to as a form of contractual liability along with compensation for damages and payment of a penalty. This approach blurs the distinction in terms of contractual liability of a medical organisation and tort liability in the form of compensation for moral harm. Contractual liability arises irrespective of fault (paragraph 3 of Article 401 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation); compensation for moral harm is allowed, as a general rule, only in the presence of the fault of the person who caused the harm (paragraph 2 of Article 151 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). The terms of liability in such cases must be determined with due regard to the above rules.

Мораль и язык большевизмa

Автор данной статьи ставит перед собой задачу показать, что организованная больше­виками реформа языка – это нечто большее, чем просто техническая «реформа языка», ибо эта реформа охватила все сферы общественной жизни. Такое мощное влияние ре­волюционного языка объясняется прежде всего его тесной связью с моралью. В рос­сийской революции язык и мораль образовали собой единое целое. Более того, рево­люционный язык и революционная мораль стали той теоретической базой, на основе которой новая власть смогла легитимировать организованные ею террор и репрессии. Однако по причине непрекращающегося и затянувшегося на десятилетия революци­онного террора это единство языка и морали стало постепенно подвергаться сомне­нию и разрушаться. Революционная мораль оказалась в опасности. На ее защиту в 1938 г. встал Лев Троцкий. При этом Троцкий попытался строго отделить мораль большевизма от морали сталинизма, но убедительно доказать правомочность своей попытки такого разделения революционной морали он не смог. Автора статьи, одна­ко, более всего интересуют те (без)нравственные методы, с помощью которых Троцкий пытается оправдать большевистский террор и репрессии. Надо признать, что Троцкий стремится легитимировать не большевистскую, а революционную мораль как таковую. Последняя допускает, разумеется, в «высших» и «гуман­ных» целях, применение насилия и уничтожение определенных групп людей. Но даже и такой крупный теоретик революции как Троцкий натолкнулся на непреодоли­мые этические границы, которые не позволяют с помощью моральных аргументов легитимировать насилие. Попытка Троцкого продемонстрировала лишний раз, что этические нормы принципиально не позволяют оправдать безнравственные дей­ствия. В этом и заключается исключительное значение его этического анализа рус­ской революции.

Мораль и язык национал-социализма

This article presents an analysis of the diaries of the well-known German philologist of Jew­ish origin Victor Klemperer, who kept them in the Third Reich. From the perspective of these diaries, the author of the article examines the three central problems of the totalitarian language: the problem of its genesis and dissemination, the problem of the relationship of language with the ideology and morality of Nazi society, and, finally, the problem of per­sonal responsibility, especially the responsibility of public persons for the public language. Klemperer asks himself a question that we must ask ourselves as well: how can the language of a minor extremist (racist, religious, revolutionary) minority become the language of the majority? Furthermore, under what conditions does this linguistic change happen? Under what conditions does the totalitarian language emerge and spread? The danger of the totalitarian language is that it creates a seemingly legitimate basis to exclude a particular group or even specific groups from the society, thereby turning certain people into outsiders. The totalitarian language allows people to draw, mark and select. But behind this linguistic selection there is always a certain morality that implies concrete moral convictions and ethi­cal ideas. And so it was with the morality of National Socialism. The National Socialist morality was characterized by the spirit of racism and anti-Semitism, which manifested it­self primarily in the language of National Socialism. For this reason, we need to study the National Socialist language. But it also presupposes the study of National Socialist morality. This morality appears from time to time in the modern German language, esp. in the language of modern German extremists and racists. It poses a great danger to our soci­ety. In this respect, the study of the language of extremism can help us a lot, not only in or­der to recognize the close relationship between language and morality, but also possibly to avoid social catastrophes.

Uobličavanje ideje pravde u "poemi o pravdi"

As one of the most important principles of forming of social relations, Hesiod emphasizes the principle of justice. He places the idea of justice into the very core of life, because it is in this idea that he finds the root out of which a different world and a better one is to be born. Hesiod's idea of justice is manifested as a need for strengthening the relation of equivalence when it is stable and adequate, and for its establishing in case it is disbalanced and inadequate. The presence of justice at all levels, from the highest metaphysical one, all the way to the relations within the practical sphere, shows that it can be considered as a mighty deity, as a cosmic principle, but also as a legitimate basis of comprehensive human action. In Hesiod's writings it is finally suggested that there is a difference between the order of causality of irrational nature and the order of duties of morality, actually between bia on one hand and nomos and dike on the other. Believing that living beings can not disturb the order of bia, while humans can disturb the order of dike, Hesiod postulates the difference which will be crucial for the later philosophical consideration of the field of praxis.

Conceptual foundations of information security of national economy in the conditions of digitalization

The article focuses on defining the conceptual foundations of information security of the national economy in terms digitalization. The study revealed the dual relationship between the processes Djilas and the development of the economic system, actualized the problem of information security in today’s economy. Based on the analysis of the chronology of major cyber-attacks on information systems, the level and dynamics of cyber-attacks and cybercrime, the financial losses of the national economy from cybercrime the need for information security was justified. The conceptual-categorical basis of information security of the national economy was formed. The links between the basic categories of development of digitalization processes, management of the national economy and provision of information security were determined. Based on the analysis of the scientific literature, three main conceptual approaches to defining the essence of information security were defined, in accordance with which information security is considered as a component of national security; the protection of the information environment and national interests from possible threats; the state of the system, which is able to ensure appropriate security settings. The content of the notion ‘information security of the national economy’ was extended and defined as a condition of protection of the information environment, ensuring the realization of national economic interests, the stability of the national economy to both internal and external, real and potential threats associated with the rapid development of digitalization. The structural model of information security of the national economy was developed, based on systemic and protective approaches, its properties and interrelation of elements with external environment were defined. It was proved that the protection of national economic interests is the basis of the information security of the national economy. The proposed system of information security of the national economy has identified a legitimate basis for further study of the priority directions of ensuring information security in terms of digitalization.