DIGITALIZATION AGAINST CORRUPTION: EMERGENCE OF E-CORRUPTION
The role of digitalization, e-government and electronic network public goods in reducing corruption is considered. High technologies and innovative methods of public administration in the aggregate give high results in the fight against embezzlement. At the same time, with the development of science and technology under economy digitalization, a favorable environment is created for the emergence of a new type of crime - e-corruption, which manifests in obtaining political rent through government orders, but also in intervention in government software. The transition to electronic data has a number of significant advantages. However, this process is increasingly becoming the target of intruders. Due to e-corruption, numerous cyber attacks at different software levels occur every day.
Keywords: public goods, e-government, e-government services, e-network public goods, digital economy, corruption, e-corruption.
Highlights:
effective public administration through the digital environment allows reducing the level of corruption, since the interaction of the population and civil servants is increasingly taking place through the electronic platform;
the process of economy digitalization has not only positive results, but also negative ones in the form of the emergence of a new form of corruption - e-corruption;
e-corruption is the abuse by state officials of their authority in working with high-level information systems and e-government.
Dinara N. Mukhamadieva, a lecturer of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.