Conceptual issues of digitalization of the agro-industrial complex of developing countries

Abstract

The article analyzes the digital potential in agro-industrial enterprises in the CIS countries. Currently, the Commonwealth of Independent States includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. The article focuses on the key indicators of competitiveness and digitalisation in the economy of agro-industrial complexes in the CIS countries. It compares the index of digital technology implementation and key indicators of competitiveness, and makes assumptions about the development of digital potential of agro-industrial complexes in the CIS countries. The dynamics of digital transformation in each CIS country is analyzed. The world experience of integration processes of deepening digitalization is analyzed. The economic potential of information and communication technologies of agro-industrial complexes is important for the national and regional economy. The competitiveness of companies in the enterprises of the agroindustrial complex is increasing. On the basis of statistical data the share of ICT goods in the total share of exports and imports was studied. The study showed that ICT goods are exported and imported by all CIS countries. Prospective areas of digitalization of the CIS economies were identified. The implications of the digitalization of the financial sector, aimed at increasing the transparency of cash flows, were identified. Challenges for the expansion of the regional economies of the CIS countries are set.