Digitalization Challenges for Regional Social and Economic Policies

Authors

  • Roman Vladimirovich Fomin, Nikolay Sergevich Kulyasov, Nikita Nikolaevich Grinev, Natalya Yurievna Nikolaeva, Elena Vasilevna Kulyasova

Abstract

Purpose: To identify the main range of challenges of economy digitalization, addressed to the regional social and economic policies. Discussion: the challenges of economy digitalization, addressed to the regional social and economic policies, affect the technological base, organization mechanisms, resources of these policies, as well as the way of their institutional ordering. Accordingly, an adequate response to them cannot be reduced to the development and implementation of a standard set of measures on improving the regional socio-economic policies; it is obvious that in relation to the existing challenges it needs to be modernized. Results: the essence of the term “digitalization” has been clarified; there have been analyzed the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the assessment of the digitalization process development in the countries of the world, including the Russian Federation; the role of regional social and economic policies in the development of the digital economy at the meso-level has been determined; there have been identified the actual challenges of the economy digitalization, addressed to the regional social and economic policies.

Published

2020-11-01

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