The IT Sector and its Impact on the Socio-Economic Development

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to highlight the main modern tendencies of convergence of information technologies and the socio-economic processes occurring in different planes – from the supranational level to the level of the enterprise as a low-grade but a self-entity unit. The theoretical-methodological basis of the study was the works of domestic and foreign researchers, who studied features of the introduction of information technologies into production processes and their impact on the socio-economic development in general. The aggregate of methods of the carried out research included the dialectical method of cognition and other methods based upon it, particularly, the method of system analysis, descriptive, comparative, statistical (they belong to the general scientific ones), and also the method of scenario planning (which refers to the general scientific and is based on the instrument for scenario analysis).

Keywords

• IT products
• economic development
• internet technologies
• electronization