Prospects of the digital economy in Russia
The spread of digital technology in the last decade, which determines the development paths of the world economy and the world community, literally before our eyes leads to dramatic changes in the lives of people of most of modern mankind. The formation of the digital economy is the global trend of all industrialized countries, including USA, UK, Germany, Japan, etc. Moreover, the formation and development of the digital economy is not considered as part of the innovative strategies of individual industries and companies, but as a global strategic agenda of countries claiming leadership positions in the 21st century. Determining the prospects for the formation of the digital economy of Russia, the authors of the article consider systemic problems that determine the development framework of the digital economy. The first problem, playing the role of institutional restraint, is that the Russian state, if it listens to the views of authoritative scientists on the imperative of accelerated development of new technologies, does it in a truncated, fragmented form. The second problem is that we declare, but do not determine the responsibility for not achieving the objectives set by the government to achieve the goals of state programs (in this case, the State Program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation”) [1]. Hence the optional implementation of the plans of the adopted programs in full, which is expressed, in particular, in the permanent change in the volume of financing and the final cost of state programs. The article analyzes the causes of these problems, assesses the possible positive and negative consequences of Russia’s digitalization. The idea of the need to clarify the strategy of Russian digitalization is substantiated.