SMART CITY TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ECONOMY OF "UNSTABLE CITIES"
This article is devoted to the formation of the model of readiness of municipalities to implement Smart City technologies. The hypothesis of the study is the assumption of the possibility of simulation modeling in terms of determining the degree of readiness of «unstable cities» to the introduction of SmartCity technologies. The goal of the scientific research is the formation of a model for measuring the readiness of municipalities to introduce SmartCity technologies on the basis of the author's approach to imitation modeling. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to fulfill the following set of tasks: to consider the theoretical aspects of Smart City technologies in the current realities of development of a new paradigm of economic development; to create a simulation model of the dynamic measurement of the readiness of municipalities to introduce Smart City technologies using the example of some «unstable cities». The novelty of the scientific article is the author's approach to the consideration of the issue of the readiness of municipalities to introduce SmartCity technologies through the imitation of certain economic indicators of «unstable cities». The toolkit of the scientific article consists of the following methods: theoretical adaptation of the material, analysis and synthesis of data, modeling of economic processes. The study is quite interesting from the point of view of applying imitation technologies in the framework of this issue. In the future, this topic of research can be developed and supplemented in the development of strategic programs for the introduction of SmartCity technologies in the economy of single-industry towns.