Digitalization of the municipal economy: global trends and practice of Russian municipalities

The transformation of the municipal economy in the late XX - early XXI centuries increased the importance of the use of interactive information technologies in the urban environment, increasing their influence on the formation of a smart modern urban space that meets the level of development of society in accordance with the concept of sustainable development. The subject of the research is the features of the digitalization of municipal governance in modern realities. The task is to identify the main trends in the digitalization of the municipal management system in the face of uncertainty and transformation of economic realities. In order to assess the features of the transformation and development of municipalities in the context of widespread digitalization of economic processes, the evolution of informatization of the municipal management system in the Russian Federation has been investigated. The results of the study were to determine the goal of creating and developing a unified information space in Russia, identifying elements of a unified information space of a municipality, as well as directions for using information technologies in managing municipalities, as well as requirements for the formation of its interactive elements. The methodological basis of the study was formed on the basis of content analysis of scientific research and economic and statistical data characterizing the trends and tendencies of digitalization of municipalities. To assess the development of the digital economy in the cities of the Russian Federation, methods of comparative analysis of world and Russian smart practices, as well as trends in smart cities launched on ICT, were applied. During the study, it was revealed that the developed principles of the Smart City project are especially important in modern conditions of neo-industrialization and reindustrialization, however, the trend of budget non-fulfillment of the Digital Economy national project that took place in 2019, which was designed to become the basis for the development of all other federal programs, continued under the constraints associated with COVID-2019, showing the worst budgetary execution result for the period January - August 2020. The result of the study was an assessment of not only the economic parameters of the socio-economic, institutional and other order that determine the effectiveness of the implementation of a national project, but also a comparison of the qualitative characteristics of the domestic digitalization of municipalities with foreign counterparts. Recommendations were developed to eliminate current problems in order to increase the efficiency of digitalization of the municipal economy and enhance its participation in solving national development priorities.