The additional issue of the Information Society Journal for 2025 is published. The main theme of the issue is Sectoral Digital Development International Experience and National Practice. Part 2. The first part of this issue was published in December 2024.
This issue concludes the publication of the main results from the three-year (2021–2023) research efforts in scientific-methodological and applied economic studies on sectoral digital transformation. The first issue on this topic was published in December 2024.
Modeling Digital Development Processes
Digital Competencies of Employees
Financing Digital Development
Production of Domestic Digital Solutions
Digital Technologies for Sectoral Development
In his address to readers, the issue’s editor Yuri Hohlov wrote:
This thematic issue of the Information Society journal concludes the publication of the main findings of three years of scientific, methodological, and applied economic research (2021–2023) on the digital transformation of various fields of activity. This research was conducted by staff of the All-Russian Foreign Trade Academy, together with experts from the Institute of the Information Society, on assignment from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. The first issue on this topic was published in December 2024.
The issue opens with an article devoted to modeling digital development processes as an innovative two-stage process influenced by factors within the internal environment of organizations in specific fields of activity and their external environment. The chosen approach allows us to consider digital development as a set of process and product innovations based on digital technologies. This, in turn, opens the possibility of systematizing and applying the results and methods of various disciplines to the construction of digital development models.
The following two articles examine the influence of factors such as the level of digital competencies of personnel and the financial support for digital development processes in a specific field of activity on digital development. These supplement the publications from the previous issue, which analyzed other technological and non-technological factors. The availability of official statistical data (even if limited) allowed us not only to construct conceptual frameworks for monitoring and assessing the impact of various factors on the digital development of a particular field of activity but also to pilot-test the developed tools, confirming the viability of the chosen approach.
One of the central articles in the issue is devoted to the production of digital products (goods and services), without which digital development is impossible in any field of activity. For Russia, under international pressure and sanctions imposed by Western countries, the production of domestic digital products has become a priority. Therefore, the article places additional emphasis on developing a methodology for monitoring and assessing the scale of domestic digital production, its competitiveness (including internationally), and its development potential.
Finally, the concluding article, based on the available data and the developed conceptual framework, provides a detailed analysis of the use of digital technologies both in the internal business processes of organizations in this field of activity and in interactions with external counterparties. The system for monitoring and evaluating digital development processes presented in the authors’ publications is universal in nature and provides effective feedback for targeted progress toward achieving national development goals for both the country as a whole and for individual areas of activity.
The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.