Digitalization and Its Impact on the Adaptation of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Russian Economy

In 2023, the Russian index in the annual Information and Communication Technologies Development Index (ICT, calculated by the International Telecommunication Union of the United Nations) was estimated at 88.9. According to experts, this is a fairly high value, exceeding the indicators of most countries, which, along with Russia, are included by researchers in the group of countries with above-average incomes. According to data from the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, over the past few years, the number of organizations in the country using technologies for collecting, processing and analyzing big data (30.4%), working with cloud services (28.9%) and using data center services (16.5%) has increased. In 2023, the share of the IT industry in GDP was 1.96%, which is 1.5 times more than five years ago. So far, digitalization is developing unevenly in different industries. Artificial intelligence is gradually beginning to perform the functions of a digital assistant in a number of industries. The level of digitalization will largely depend on the economic development of the country. The survey analyzes the level of digitalization in Russia , the factors determining the development of digitalization now and in the future, impact of the digitalization on the adaptation of the Russian enterprises.