DIFFERENTIATION OF THE DIRECTIONS OF DIGITALIZATION OF RURAL AREAS (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE NORTH-WEST)

DOI 10.32651/2210-19

Issue № 10, 2022, article № 4, pages 19-27

Section: DIGITALIZATION IN THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Language: Russian

Original language title: ДИФФЕРЕНЦИАЦИЯ НАПРАВЛЕНИЙ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ СЕВЕРО-ЗАПАДА)

Keywords: DIGITALIZATION OPTIONS, CLASSES OF MUNICIPALITIES, TYPES OF MUNICIPALITIES, FOREIGN PRACTICE, SMART VILLAGES, DIGITAL VILLAGES, SOCIAL CAPITAL, LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Abstract: The implementation of the Federal Project "Elimination of Digital Inequality" makes the digitalization of rural areas of Russia an objective reality that requires discrimination. Currently, the number of scientific publications devoted to the digitalization of rural areas of Russia is very limited. They have a disparate, most often staged nature and do not take into account the relevant foreign practice. The upcoming digitalization should be tied to each specific territory of the country in accordance with local conditions. The purpose of the study is to justify the possibilities of differentiated application of foreign experience in the digitalization of rural areas, taking into account the Russian regional specifics. When solving the problem "Analysis and generalization of foreign digitalization experience," the content analysis method was used. When solving the problem of "Differentiation of municipalities of the North-western Federal District," classification and typology methods were used. The official data of the Database of indicators of Rosstat municipalities were used. The differentiation of territories by the ratio of the number of urban and rural population, its density was studied. An analysis of foreign experience showed the presence of a number of options for the digitalization of rural areas: European (European Union), European (Lapland), Indian, Chinese, Nigerian, etc. Taking into account the results of the classification of municipalities of the North-West of the Russian Federation and the identification of their combined types, possible options for differentiated use of foreign practice have been determined. The binding of options for foreign digitalization to the allocated types of municipalities should be considered as a systematization of this process, taking into account the differentiation of local features, but by no means a tough recommendation. In each of the selected types there may be municipalities with distinctive features that require an individual approach.

Authors: Kostiaev Aleksandr Ivanovich