Dijital devlet kapasitesi ulusal güvenlik mimarisi olarak: Kazakistan'ın kamu hizmeti reformu ve veri odaklı çağda politika oluşturma

Özet (abstract)

Digitalization is changing national security not only through cyber threats, but through the ordinary administrative capacity of the state to allocate expertise, govern data, deliver services, and retain public trust. This Policy and Practice Review develops the concept of accountable digital state capacity and uses Kazakhstan’s civil-service reforms to examine how administrative digitalization becomes security-relevant. The evidence is drawn from seven annual national civil-service reports published from 2019 to 2025, beginning with the report covering 2018. The review identifies four linked developments: functional reallocation of the civil service; expansion of digital HR and personnel-selection tools; a shift from e-government availability toward proactive and monitored service delivery; and stronger formal attention to ethics, feedback, and redress. These official reports document reform inputs and administrative outputs rather than independently verified social outcomes. They nevertheless show how personnel systems, service platforms, and accountability mechanisms can become part of a state’s resilience infrastructure. The article argues that the security value of digital reform depends on whether efficiency gains are accompanied by explainability, human oversight, data protection, meaningful appeal, and continuity planning. Kazakhstan therefore offers a useful case for understanding national security architecture as an administrative as well as a specialized-security problem. The analysis therefore uses recurrent reform indicators selectively: as evidence of security-relevant administrative dependencies, failure points, and safeguards rather than as a general performance account of digital-government modernization.

Yazarların özeti; kaynağından alınmıştır. Frontiers in Political Science, 2026 · DOI ↗