Digitalization of Infrastructure Development Based on the Use of Public-Private Partnership Mechanisms: Is Russia in Trend?

Abstract

The author considers the digitalization of infrastructure policy at the global and national levels as an important tool for providing quality infrastructure and promoting sustainable development. The specifics of the author's approach to problems of digitalization of infrastructure development based on the use of public-private partnership mechanisms consists of a combination of “vertical” (analysis of digital and platform solutions in the field of infrastructure investment) and “horizontal” (research of sectoral spectrum of the use of information technologies in the infrastructure of public-private partnership projects) analysis. The author analyses the international experience of developing digital and platform solutions in the field of infrastructure investments. The latest approaches to the development and improvement of the infrastructure complex in the Russian Federation are analyzed. Suggestions and recommendations on ways to further improve the infrastructure complex in Russia based on digitalization and the active use of public-private partnership mechanisms are made.