The Impact of Investments on the Development of Information and Communication Technologies

The article analyzes the impact of fixed capital investments aimed at developing information and communication technologies (hereinafter ICT) in government bodies, among the population, and among companies using economic and statistical methods. The relevance of the study is determined by the relationship between ICT development and the differentiation of regions by socio-economic development. A significant asymmetry in the regional distribution of fixed capital investments in ICT between Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Moscow region and other regions of the Russian Federation is revealed, which entails the formation of a digital divide between the population of the regions. The purpose of the work is to determine the direction of the influence of fixed capital investments aimed at acquiring information, computer and telecommunications equipment. The work proves that fixed capital investments have a greater impact on providing government bodies with ICT tools and enhancing the ability of the population to interact with them via the Internet than they have on the share of the population placing orders via the Internet. The obtained relationships allow us to develop measures to optimize investment policy aimed at digital transformation of regions in order to increase its effectiveness.

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