THE ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION ECONOMY BASED ON THE STATUS OF DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE OBJECTS
The article analyzes alternative the approaches to the essence of the information economy and formulates the methodological approaches to assessing the level of its development. The aim of the study is to develop a methodological approach to assessing the performance of information infrastructure objects, the indicator of which is defined as one of the essential indicators of the processes of informatization of the economy. In the course of the study, the following tasks were set and solved: the author's interpretation of the information (digital) economy was given; it is proposed a methodological approach to assessing the effectiveness of the processes of informatization of the economy, based on the results of the functioning of information infrastructure objects; the proposed methodology was tested on the example of the regions of the Volga Federal District (VFD). The study used the method of multivariate analysis. The result of the research is the methodological approach that can be applied at the macro- and meso-levels to assess the processes of informatization and comparative analysis of the levels of digitalization of economic spaces of different levels. The conclusion of this study is the thesis about the incompleteness of the scientific research on the processes of informatization and the essence of the information society, which suggests the need for further development of the conceptual apparatus and the analytical tools of economic science.