and real worlds must be quickly removed in order to
remove barriers to cross-border online activities;
creating the right conditions for the development
of digital networks and services. It requires fast,
secure and reliable content infrastructure and services,
as well as the right legal conditions for innovation and
investment, as well as fair competition and a level
playing field;
maximizing the economic growth generated by the
European digital economy. It requires the investment
into ICT infrastructure and technology, such as cloud
computing and large database sets, as well as research
and innovation that will increase the competitiveness
of industry, will improve utilities and expand the circle
of people, who use digital economy and improve their
skills (Komunikat, 2015).
Funding of the European Structural and
Investment Funds in the amount of more than 21.4
billion Euros is only provided for the development of
EU digital infrastructure and single market services,
as well as for research and innovation startups
(Komunikat, 2015).
Analysis of the development of the digital
economy indicates the preconditions for its formation.
It is believed that a number of factors contribute to the
development of the digital economy. The first is
determined by the abrupt growth of technical
capabilities of information processing and
transmission. According to the UN report on the
development of the digital economy, the evolution of
global Internet traffic from 2002 to 2022 has
increased. It will continue to grow in 10 and 20 years,
respectively, in 230 and 1507 times! In 2002 it will
grow to 100 Gb / s. In 2007 it will grow to 2000 Gb /
s. In 2012 it will grow to 46000 Gb / s, in 2022 it will
grow to 150700 Gb (Digital economy report, 2019).
The intensive development of the economy
platform is another factor in the development of the
digital economy. The strength of the digital platform
is reflected in the fact that seven of the top- eight
world's companies use business models on the
platform through market capitalization. Five
companies were IT manufacturers, which were the
top- five at market value in 2019. The total value of
platform companies with market capitalization of
more than 100 million US dollars was estimated at
more than 7 trillion dollars in 2017, what is 67%
higher than in 2015 (Digital economy report, 2019).
Digital platforms provide mechanisms for
combining a set of counterparties to interact via the
Internet. A distinction can be made between
transaction platforms and innovation platforms.
Transaction platforms are bilateral or multilateral
markets with a network infrastructure that supports the
exchange between numbers of different agents. They
have become the main business model for large digital
technology corporations, such as Amazon, Alibaba,
Facebook and eBay, as well as for those, who are
developing digitally supported market segments (e.g.
Uber, Didi, Chuxing, Airbnb). Innovative platforms
create an environment for encoding and producing
content by developing applications and software in the
form of operating systems such as Android or Linux.
In our opinion, the beginning of the digital
economy development is the result of more global
processes than technical innovations, the development
of the Internet and so on. In this sense, we agree with
the opinion of Polish scientists that technological
change is not a determinant of the digital economy ...
in contrast to social, economic, cultural factors
(Cyfrowa gospodarka, 2017). Indeed, the
globalization of the economy, accompanied by the
concentration of social communities, leads to the
development of cities and the concentration of the
population of countries around large cities, the share
and importance of which will only increase. Thus,
since 1950, the number of people living in cities has
increased almost six fold, from 751 million to more
than 4 billion people in 2018, which is more than half
of the world's population. Over the next three decades,
the cities are projected to grow another 2.5 billion
people (The comprehensive smart environment,
2016). These processes form the demand for business
and government for an effective system of
management, control infrastructure development,
provision of services and production of innovative
products. So, we believe that this entropy is leading
one in order to understand the development of
infrastructure for metropolises and agglomerations:
from transport and financial hubs, to the development
of information technology, big data management for
urban administration and other technologies,
including the digital economy in response to the new
system of population settlement.
The digital economy is operationally represented
at all stages of the product reproduction cycle. It is
essentially Industry 4.0, which makes the economic
and technological basis of the fourth industrial
revolution. Today digit law is an artificial intelligence,
robotics, web money, industrial biology, processing of
large data arrays Big Data, 3D industrial printing,
unmanned vehicles, drones, block chain and crypto
currencies, 4G communication, e-government and
servicing of state and municipal government and
administrative services ("Action" service), etc. In
business management, modern digital technologies
are mostly used to solve supply chain management
problems to optimize and control the cycle of