Factor of the personality of the supreme leader in the development of electronic document flow and digitalizati

Abstract

The article studies an importance of the state top officials role in the policy of the informatization of state bodies, the formation of the infrastructure for an “electronic government”. That is especially important in the periods when the leader’s choice of the reforms course in the country depends either on the further development and a breakthrough or on the onset of stagnation.
The contemporary history of many developed and developing countries confirms that the factor of the personal position of the head of state with the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is of paramount importance for technological leadership. Only a few young states that achieved their independence in the last decade of the 20th century, with the election of strong reform leaders, managed to become the forerunners of innovative development.
The author uses examples of N.A. Nazarbayev, the first President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1990–2019), political will in initiating the cardinal reforms in public administration and the accelerated introduction of advanced technologies and national developments into that sphere chronologically demonstrating the consistent implementation of the large-scale systems – of the unified electronic document management system of state bodies and the entire “electronic government” infrastructure complex. Resulting from the head of state personal attention, his consistent and active management of the digitalization processes, the Republic of Kazakhstan, in a short time, has achieved the leadership positions in the “electronic government” world ranking.