Prospects for the Formation of the Information Space of the Regional Level in the Digital Economy

The directions of development of socio-economic information systems used for regional management are considered. Systems that need to be upgraded in accordance with modern capabilities and requirements of the digital economy. As a result of the consistent implementation of many private software solutions to achieve individual tasks, the so-called “patchwork” (“niche”) automation has been formed, aimed at creating socio-economic information, which should fundamentally be systematic and consistent. Currently, the sources of statistical data differ in structure, format, composition of indicators and periodicity of the generated data, their state is characterized by the fragmentation of the software systems used, data storage forms and the data itself. Collecting and processing this data requires a lot of money, but the result does not meet the increased requirements of users. The existing initiatives to create a single space of socio-economic information in the regional context are described: the Volgograd Regional Statistical Information and Analytical System (RSIAS), the interdepartmental Information and Analytical System (EMISS), the central analytical platform (CAP), the national data management system (NMS), the federal cloud platform of the state market “Gostech”. The article assesses the efforts being made to integrate information about the regions into a single information space. The proposed ways of integrating economic information into a single information space are considered. A conceptual approach to such integration based on ontologies of the subject area of socio-economic relations is proposed.