Objective: to identify the infocommunication connectivity of Siberian regions in order to delimitate the territorial digital platforms as th
Objective: to identify the infocommunication connectivity of Siberian regions in order to delimitate the territorial digital platforms as the basis for forming territorial clusters of the future digital economy.Methods: content analysis, calculation of information flow delay between cities, comparative analysis, network analysis. Results: the connectivity of ten Siberian regions was estimated by the value of information flow delay between the administrative centers of these regions. Delay calculations were carried out according to the author’s database of telecommunication lines between all cities. Only fiber-optic communication lines were taken into account. It is shown that with the existing fiber-optic network of Siberia allows allocating five territorial digital platforms that unite six digital urban agglomerations. In case of straightening the communication lines between the agglomerations’ cores, it is possible to form four platforms uniting all eight Siberian digital agglomerations. Then, in future, 47% of the Siberian Federal district cities may appear to be out of the digital economy.Scientific novelty: the trend of the Russian publication activity in the field of economic connectivity is determined; it is proposed to assess the infocommunication connectivity of regional administrative centers by the delay of information flow between them; the curvature of the infocommunication space of Siberia as a kind of economic space is measured; the idea of the territorial digital platform is formulated; interregional and regional digital platforms of Siberia are identified. Practical significance: the author compiled a list of Siberian cities, the ultra-small information flow delay between which allows forming territorial clusters of the future digital economy.
