Аннотация
The analysis of the emerging digital economy in Kazakhstan requires disclosing not only an essence of this type of economy, but an essence of global reconstruction of an economic organization of a human society. Since 1950s the world countries have experienced a post-industrial economy of mass production followed by knowledge economy in 1990s and digital one in 2000s. Revolutionary changes brought by the Internet call the discussion whether that changes have been for the better or for the worse insight of economic context; what legal, economic, social and technological challenges have been experiencing and what sorts of decision making it is necessary to enlarge benefits of digital economy? The purpose of the article is to answer the question why Kazakhstan is not a country number 1 in the Rating of Digital Economy through an examination of major sectors, profiles and cases, obstacles and ways of overcoming.