Forestry digital platform of Russia

The article discusses the introduction of digital technologies in the forestry industry of Russia. Forestry of the Russian Federation is significantly inferior to the world forest powers in the field of digitalization of forestry, which makes it necessary to accelerate the transition to digital technologies most demanded at the level of state management of forests and in forest business. Similar to the countries of Europe, a State policy should be developed in the field of forest informatization, as well as the creation of a digital forest platform. The results of the study of the system of state management of forests at the level of regions of Russia for the application of digital technologies are presented. The need to create a digital forestry platform as an important component of the modern digital economy is justified. It has been established that the creation of a single digital forest platform will contribute to the improvement of forest management efficiency, increased openness of information on forest resources of regional systems, simplification of the communication process. The objectives and structure of the digital platform, which includes sub-platforms corresponding to six important forestry subsystems and application modules for various practical tasks, are defined. A sequence of stages of digital platform development is proposed.