Development of Digital Economy in Russia and in Regions of Siberian Federal District

Abstract

In present-day society digital technologies play an important role in economic development involving all fields of activity: industrial and agricultural manufacture, work of transportation and construction companies, logistic, financial and monetary activities, service sector, science and education, various branches of infrastructure, as well as households. They are the foundation for transition of economies of all countries to the sixth technological mode. The article examines the current conditions of the digital economy development in the regions of the Siberian Federal District in terms of the trends of information-communication technologies penetration into the society. In the course of solving the tasks set, the article considers the dynamic processes of economic development in Russia’s information space. It pays particular attention to analyzing the society’s readiness for infomatization processes in terms of the SFD regions, It reveals the trend of increasing the living standard indices depending on growth of the index of readiness for information society.