Digital State Capacity
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Digital State Capacity (DSC) is defined as the ability of governments to deploy ICT infrastructure and information systems for administration, monitoring, enforcement, coordination, and service delivery. The paper introduces a registry-based measure based on public IPv4 address space held by government organisations, covering roughly 150,000 government-identified country-entity records across 150+ countries (2019–2024) with Admin-1 subnational granularity. Validation shows DSC correlates with existing state-capacity and digital-government indicators, yet remains distinct from them. Illustrative country-year analyses find that higher DSC is associated with lower perceived corruption and higher vaccination coverage, among other outcomes; however, these associations are descriptive, not causal, and reflect capacity rather than use. The measure expands analysis to subnational, functional, and agency-level dimensions, while acknowledging limitations such as IPv4 focus, IPv6 considerations, and historical data gaps. [page::1]
