The Assessment and Analysis Models for Digital Development of Territories

Abstract

The article discusses a comprehensive approach to assessing and analyzing the digital development of Ukrainian territories in the context of recovery, rang ing from the development of a city digitalization project and task optimization to the creation of models for evaluating and analyzing various factors of the interconnection between digital and economic development in the country’s territories. The study examines the feasibility of using Data Science methods and project management as tools to achieve sustainable digital development of the territories. The development of a strategy for managing digital development in territories, segmented by specific sectors, includes a series of stages and tasks integrated into the basic project model. The article proposes a list of stages and tasks for a city digitalization management project and specifies the corresponding basic model of the organizational structure of the digitalization department. The key components of the management system have been examined: development management, information management, support for digitalization appli cations, and technical support. A draft digital development strategy has been prepared, and the stages of the project model optimization algorithm are being discussed in terms of time criteria, project cost issues, and the optimization of expenditure items. Since the implementation of complex smart city management projects is adapted to the specific characteristics of economic development in each territorial community, the article also addresses the adaptation of project tasks, illustrated by the development of a model for assessing the state of digitalization across the entire country. The research methodology is based on the development of mathematical models for assessing and analyzing the country’s digitization at both the macro and meso levels using Data Science methods, particularly unsupervised agglomerative and iterative machine learning techniques. This approach allowed for the identification of significant disparities in the country’s digitization, asymmetry in the development of telecommunications across its regions, and uneven intensity in the implementation of digital technolo gies in various sectors of Ukraine’s economy. The results demonstrate the necessity to improve comprehensive digital development programs and to create new directions for territorial digitalization. These results can be applied in the practice of managing digital development within regional and municipal executive authorities. Implementing the proposed strategic digital development management model will enhance the quality of formulating and making managerial decisions regarding the digitalization of the most critical areas of territorial development in Ukraine.