Legal and organizational nature of digitalization processes and regulatory functions of the state in this sphere

In the article the authors argue that the processes of digitalization of public relations are not independent, it occurs in isolation from other social, economic, and political processes. Digitalization is one of the elements of the technological development of society and civilization as a whole, it does not have signs of an institutional phenomenon, being not a part of the economy, but one of the directions of the state's domestic and foreign policy, which involves the construction of a high-tech economy. The article grounds that the functioning of society and the national economy in the context of digitalization is an object of state and legal influence and the processes of digitalization ofpublic life are subject to comprehensive state regulation. Instead of "state regulation of the digital economy" and "state regulation of digital society" the authors propose the terminology "state regulation of the creation and use of high technologies. " the authors recognize the option of state regulation of activities in the field of high technologies, currently selected in the Republic of Belarus as the optimal one.