Cyfryzacja administracji publicznej w Unii Europejskiej w świetle Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-Based Digital Government, 2020 .......... 29

DIGITALIZATION OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE LIGHT OF BERLIN DECLARATION ON DIGITAL SOCIETY AND VALUE-BASED DIGITAL GOVERNMENT, 2020

The main aim of the paper is to analyse the content of the European Union’s Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-based Digital Government, 2020, and to compare it with former ministerial declarations of the EU on e-Government. Digital transformation of public administrations in the EU is a complex issue combining competences of member states and requirements of the agile functionality of the common market. Compromises are reached usually wherewithal ministerial declarations which are unanimously voted in the Council. It is a prerogative of a member state carrying out a duty of a Presidency to propose a new ministerial declaration. In the paper former ministerial declarations on e-Government in the European Union are discusses (Riga, 2006, Malmö, 2009 and Tallinn, 2017) and compared with the Berlin declaration. The content of the last one differs from the others and emphasizes on European ethical values which European digital public administration systems should fulfill. In the research such methods as analysis of official documents, comparative and of a system analysis have been applied. A general outcome from the research is that implementation of these solutions will enrich European digital public administration systems with additional ethical dimension of an anthropocentric character. This feature will fundamentally and positively distinguish them from digital public administrative systems implemented in other parts of the world.