“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 36 (2025), pages 351–360.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2025-36-351-360

Kostetska Tetyana
On the development of modern constitutionalism in the context of the latest information and communication processes

The article focuses on the impact of the total implementation of the latest information and communication technologies (ICT) in all spheres of public life on the formation of modern constitutionalism. It is emphasized that the globalization of the implementation of the latest ICT (informatization, digitalization, development of artificial intelligence, etc.), which are rapidly developing, has led to the transformation of social relations in all the spheres of human activity, any society, and the State.
The elements of e-government, e-democracy tools launched in Ukraine, and the implementation of the state policy of digital transformation in the context of the fullscale Russian-Ukrainian war are relevant issues of the doctrine of modern constitutionalism.
It seems quite important to have a comprehensive constitutional and legal analysis of the condition and problems of the organizational and legal nature of ICT implementation, elements of e-government, e-democracy, problems of realization of the constitutional and legal status of human and citizen in the context of modern digitalization, forecasting further development of constitutional law and other sectoral norms in modern digital realities, identifying their regulatory potential, the degree of transformation to the needs of adequate influence, etc. This will contribute to the renewal of the paradigm of modern constitutionalism and the trend of its modernization.
It is noted that the State policy of digital transformation has determined the direction of Ukraine's formation as a full-fledged digital state along with other developed countries, and the direction of further reforms in this area of social relations which are constantly and rapidly developing. At the same time, the diverse aspects of its functioning, the impact on the theoretical and legal assessment of a sovereign democratic, legal, social constitutional state, and the institutional development of constitutionalism, given the existing objective factors, remain insufficiently studied in modern legal science.
The purpose of the article is to highlight certain aspects of global transformation processes associated with the total implementation of the latest ICT in all spheres of public life, including national practice, and the degree of their impact on the reassessment of traditional approaches to defining the constituent components of Ukrainian constitutionalism.
It is emphasized that the practice of constitutionalism in Ukraine in modern conditions is a complex, multifaceted, rather controversial process.
The author emphasises that the issue of constitutionalism is relatively new in the national constitutional doctrine. Despite the existence of quite significant researches by both domestic and foreign scholars, there is no universal scientific view of the nature, essence and content of this phenomenon today. The article provides some definitions of the concept of constitutionalism by leading Ukrainian researchers.
The author identifies the factors, which influence the development of modern Ukrainian constitutionalism.
Particular attention is paid to the formation of the concept of digital (electronic) constitutionalism as a new phase of its development, a new paradigm of constitutional and legal research, based on the recognised principles of global constitutionalism. The scientific discourse on the formulation of its definition and the content of its characteristics is being conducted by representatives of various branch sciences. The author substantiates the main factors which determine the species-specific distinction of this phenomenon. These include: the objective significance of the information sphere of social relations, its constituent elements and their constitutional and legal regulation, the cross-border nature of the impact (harmful factors) on their functioning; consolidation at the constitutional level of information rights of a human, a citizen, and guarantees of their realization, and allocation of the latest digital rights; establishment of the principles of information policy, information activities of authorized entities, their system, certainty of powers, etc.; international legal standards of regulation; the need for their theoretical and legal understanding.
Key words: information and communication technologies, digitalisation, e-democracy, development of constitutionalism, digital (electronic) constitutionalism.

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