New information technologies are used in public administration as part of the introduction of e-open government. Present paper focuses on the study of the centrality of governability for the digitization of public administration, affecting their architecture, processes and effects, including their social and political expression. Digital technologies generate not only hopes, but also challenges, and their distribution and use in public governance is associated with reasonable risks. Practical relevance to the project is given by the fact that at present digital technologies have become a common tool for the formation of a digital economy, society and government in Russia and in most countries of the world. The ontological basis of these findings is considered to be the phenomenon of socio-technical systems of power that are emerging in the process of the fourth technological (digital) revolution. The article traces the development of governance as base of governability, emphasizing nature of governability as a network effect of digitalization.