DOI: 10.33917/es-6.204.2025.34-41

The article focuses on three key issues that play a special role in studying and regulating the development of the “big data” digital technology: 1) the content and characteristics of big data as a digital technology both as large volumes of information, which predetermine methodological approaches to studying the trajectories of their development, as well as their legal basis, 2) global trends and challenges of transitioning to a data-driven economy; 3) analysis and assessment of Russian trends in the global landscape.

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IT is the fastest growing sector of the economy, where information is the product: description of technologies, software and services, digital multimedia material, e-books, patents, etc. Payment systems also represent a kind of information. If previously the period of technological structures change constituted hundreds of years, now it happens during one person’s life. Gartner company conducted a survey and published the list of priority directions of IT development in 2017: artificial Intelligence and deep learning; intelligent applications; intellectual things; virtual and augmented reality; digital counterparts (dynamic program models of real objects and systems); blockchain (cryptocurrency) and distributed expenses book; conversational systems; network applications and architecture; digital platforms; adaptive security architecture.

Information technologies maintain high rates of development. The largest contribution comes from the analytics, Internet of things, recording density increase, 3D-printing, cloud technologies, as well as from network and information security. The article analyzes the IT situation in 2014 – 2015.