Digitalization as a strategic priority of territorial development
The article discusses topical issues of digitalization of territories as a strategic priority for their development. It is noted that one of the areas of digitalization of territories is the formation of a network of "smart" cities, namely, a complex innovative-digital, social-technical, information and communication system of the city territory. The features of the implementation of the pilot project of digitalization of urban economy "Smart city" are highlighted. It is noted that digitalization as an innovative area of territorial development requires improvement of the system of state and municipal administration. It is proposed to use benchmarking tools for digitalization of territories, which in practice means a continuous process of studying and evaluating the best practices of other territories in order to use the information received to make effective management decisions to improve the work of their territory. The process of applying the benchmarking methodology in the system of developing a strategy for digitalization of territories is described.