Legal Personality of an Information Resource as a Precondition for Digital Sovereignty in Public Administration
Abstract
The article presents a conceptual-theoretical study of the problem of recognising an information resource as an independent object of public-administration legal relations in the context of safeguarding the digital sovereignty of Ukraine. The concept of the “object deficit” of public administration in the digital age is proposed: the actual subject matter of digital relations – the information resource – has no legally recognised status and for that reason remains outside the direct regulatory reach of the state. The basic features of the information resource as an independent object of legal relations are systematised: its derivativeness from a primary asset, its belonging to the results of intellectual activity, and its functional uniqueness within the environment of a decentralised information platform. It is substantiated that this deficit produces a triune asymmetry of digital interaction – of subjectivity, of trust and of value – and can be overcome only through a categorical renewal of the basic object-subject model of public administration. It is proved that recognition of the legal personality of the information resource is the precondition for two public-administration mechanisms: trusted information resources under the principle of “the right is implemented through a trusted digital infrastructure”, and digital barrier-free environment as inclusive subject-based access. Directions for changes in the state and regional policies of Ukraine for the cycle of 2026–2030 are proposed. The root problem addressed by the study is the systemic inability of the existing model of public administration to regulate digital relations without legal recognition of their actual subject matter – the information resource. The article opens a series of single-author publications devoted to the consistent unfolding of this root problem in its conceptual, normative, institutional and instrumental dimensions.
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