The additional issue of the Information Society Journal for 2024 is published. The main theme of the issue is Digital development of spheres of activity: international experience and national practice. The articles in this issue cover, among others, the following topics:
Pilot Sectoral Digital Development Rating
Impact of Digital Technologies
Public Policy and Strategic Planning for Sectoral Digital Development
Human Capital for Sectoral Digital Development
R&D and Innovation for Sectoral Digital Development
Trust and Security in Sectoral Digital Development Processes
Infrastructure for Sectoral Digital Development
In his address to readers “Digital development of spheres of activity: international experience and Russian practice,” the issue’s editor Yuri Hohlov wrote:
The development of the information society today means the socio-economic changes that occur due to the use of digital technologies on the scale of a country, region or individual sphere of activity, be it a branch of the economy, a social sector or a system of public administration and local self-government. It is no coincidence that one of the national development goals of the Russian Federation until 2030 is digital transformation, or more precisely, digital development that brings economic and social dividends.
Numerous studies show that digital development is extremely uneven and depends on a large number of factors, which are not always technological by nature. It is necessary to be able not only to predict the most promising areas for the implementation of technological innovations and assess the current state, but also to purposefully plan and implement national, regional or sectoral digital initiatives.
This issue of the journal “Information Society” includes the main results of three years of scientific, methodological and applied economic research 2021-2023 on the digital transformation of major spheres of activity, carried out by employees of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade together with experts from the Institute of the Information Society by request of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The publications in this thematic issue present both theoretical research on the construction of a conceptual framework for monitoring and evaluating the processes of digital development in individual areas of activity, and practical results of pilot testing of the proposed approaches and tools. The complexity of the studied socio-technological system of digital development lies not only in modeling the processes of innovative development (from production through use to impact) based on digital technologies, but also in the need to create conditions that contribute to the successful functioning of these processes.
The integrated approach implemented in the developed monitoring and evaluation system covers a large number of non-technological factors that should be taken into account in the strategic planning and implementation of digital development processes in individual areas of activity. Therefore, the results obtained will be published in two thematic issues of our journal, the first of which is now in front of you. The second issue will be published in the first half of 2025.
The developed monitoring and evaluation system is universal by nature, can be applied to all areas of activity and provide effective feedback for targeted movement towards achieving national development goals both for the country as a whole and for a separate area of activity.
The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.