The article presents studies of the impact of digital inequality on the development of rural areas as socio-economic systems. The difference in the levels of socio-economic development of rural areas and cities in the transition to the information society is not smoothed, but rather increases, which threatens to turn most of the territory of the Russian Federation into one huge depressed region. Among the key factors determining the negative impact of digital transformations, the study highlights the rapid deterioration of the quality of human resources, which is a consequence and cause of digital inequality. The process of concentration of innovative potential in large cities and individual industries, which leads to the depletion of rural areas, and unpredictable transformations in agriculture, where the lack of mass application of high technologies leads to a sharp decrease in efficiency and General degradation of a number of resources, is critically comprehended. To solve this problem, the authors propose the concept of information model of digital transformation of management processes of socio-economic systems, taking into account the influence of territorial and sectoral factors of formation of resource potential of rural areas in the information society.

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