Digital economy and geoinformation technologies

The article characterizes the essentials and peculiarities of digital economy and lists its basic technologies. A hybrid space, formed by means of integrating a virtual space component into a real one, serves as its basis. The article underlines that in hybrid space, an object can acquire the properties of a subject; things can communicate with each other, the possibility to model everything that can be represented in formalized form appears. The article states the special role of geo-information technologies as the generators of special part of digital economy. For the first time the paper shows the changing of the role function of the geospatial branch in the process of changing the analogue economy to the digital one: from locating real objects of environment to forming spatial knowledge and management solutions as virtual prescriptive (normal) models to influence real objects. The article introduces a new notion of geo-cognitive technology as a special class of cognitive information technologies, related to perception and usage of geospace. The paper formulates three strategic goals of geospatial activity transformation for requirements and conditions of digital economy: the creation of the geo-informational digital platform, the development of cognitive formation and usage of technologies of unified geo-informational space (UGIS), the development of a number of "through" geo-informational technologies, providing service geospatial functions for different applications. The example of the transition of the concept to geo-cognitive technologies is the open high technology system for managing the region territory - "Smart region".