Prospects for the Development of Digital Economy in the Region: Study on the Example of the Voronezh Region

Abstract

The upcoming digital transformation of the Russian economy requires the subjects of the Russian Federation to create comprehensive conditions for the widespread introduction of information and communication technologies in order to ensure effective interaction of the economic, social and cultural spheres. Based on the author's methodology for calculating the Digital Russia index, the digitalization level of the subjects of the Central Black Earth region is investigated. Based on the results of the assessment, an in-depth analysis of the digital development level of the Voronezh region was carried out; the specificity of the regional potential was identified in terms of prospects for overcoming the backlog, for which the formation of an IT cluster was proposed. A number of measures are proposed to eliminate imbalances in the ratio of the levels of the Digital Russia subindices in the Voronezh region, which can be implemented within the framework of the information technology cluster.