The development of digital economy and public administration education

The article analyzes the extent of conformity of actual Russian regulation in public service and federal education standards in public administration to the goals of the development of digital economy. For this purpose the authors analyze the following topics. First - the actual strategic documents in the field of the digital economy, including the main risks of the development of information technologies on the public service. Second, the present situation with higher and postgraduate education of public servants, regulation of public service and requirements for some positions connected with the information technologies. Third, the digital competences of the graduates of the public administration education programs from the federal education standards of bachelor and master level. The authors come to the conclusion that education standards in public administration pay little attention to the skills in information technologies, as well as the actual regulation of public service and public administration education needs in the digital economy. As possible ways of adaptation the authors suggest integration of competences for digital economy in education standards and creation of courses and education programs of bachelor, master and postgraduate levels corresponding to the goals of the development of digital economy. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.