Responsible Information Society as a Social Environment for Creation of the “Green” Digital Economy: Formation and Monitoring

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the work is to overcome the scientific and methodological gap between developed and developing countries, to determine the global regularities, and to develop a universal conceptual approach to formation and monitoring of a responsible information society as the social environment for creation of the “green” digital economy. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use the method of correlation analysis for determining the connection between the green economy index, calculated by Dual Citizen, and the indicators that are calculated by the World Economic Forum during compilation of the global competitiveness index in top 10 counties of the Dual Citizen ranking of the green economy in 2019. Findings: The results of the analysis show that correlation with the green economy index is rather high for the indicators of market regulation and the indicators of state regulation of the responsible information society. The highest correlation is observed with the index of the green economy with social capital (83,42%) and with effectiveness of the legislative base (79.29%). Thus, it is concluded that it is necessary to use both the market and the regulatory mechanisms - i.e., mixed regulation. Originality/value: The authors develop a program-oriented approach to formation of the responsible information society as the social environment for creation of the “green” digital economy. The offered approach is a mixed one – i.e., it envisage usage of both the market and the regulatory mechanism of managing the responsible information society, due to which this mechanism is universal – it fits developed and developing countries and allows achieving high effectiveness as compared to narrow approaches. Also, the authors develop a methodology of multi-criterial evaluation for monitoring of the responsible information society according to the mixed approach to its formation. Approbation of the methodology by the example of Russia in 2020 allowed determining that the Russian information society is in the process of formation and has wide perspectives of development.