Digital Economy and Digital Transformation: Features of Global Structural Processes

Today digital transformation is gaining strategic importance, directly affecting the structure of the economy, its organization, and numerous, including fundamental, quantitative and qualitative parameters, indicators of socio-economic development. Digital transformation affects the micro and macro levels, which determines the relevance of the study. The purpose of the study is to analyze various directions of modern digital transformation processes in the global economy. The subject of the study is the digitalization of the world economy, the object is various directions and the overall impact on global processes. It is proved that digital innovations play a key role today for understanding current trends, determining prospects and making informed decisions in the field of economic policy. It is shown that the digital economy has passed through a number of stages of development, has various forms of phenomenon and affects both geographical and sectoral aspects of the global economy, exerting an increasingly noticeable impact not only on the economic, but also on the social sphere. That is why digital gaps pose a threat to the stability of global development in the digital age. The authors substantiate the point of view that bridging digital gaps is today the most important global task, the solution of which, at least, the mitigation of digital gaps, is achievable exclusively within the framework of purposeful international cooperation. The methodological basis of the conducted research is general scientific methods of analysis, such as description, comparison, as well as the economic and statistical method and the method of visualization of statistical data.