The Preeminence of Government Digital Transformation in Colombia

Abstract

The feasibility of state digitalization was implemented by the Colombian government at the onset of the COVID-19 health crisis. Despite the existence of regulations influencing digitalization prior to this event, the Colombian state had not carried out their application and materialization until 2020. Therefore, the objective of this research lies in the study of emerging categories related to state digitalization within the Colombian context, while also identifying the COVID-19 pandemic as the main driver of such digitalization.

From a methodological perspective, this article results from a conceptual exploration aimed at analyzing state digitalization in the post-pandemic context. This approach has made it possible to determine the main outcome of the study: the health crisis as the starting point of Colombianstate digitalization. Consequently, based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the process of implementing technological modernization— analyzed through the legal framework—reveals that the Colombian state already had a normative basis for initiating the digital era. However, such measures were only executed after the conceptualization of the materialization and implementation of these regulations