SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTIC OF INFORMATIZATION OF RUSSIA'S NORTH-ARCTIC TERRITORIES

The paper is devoted to the identification of specificity and comparative characteristics of the informatization processes of the North-Arctic territories of the Russian Federation. The evaluation of the informatization processes in Russia's North-Arctic regions was carried out on the basis of a rating assessment method, including the use of the Maholonobis distance. The constructed ratings for the informatization level have shown that the level of informatization of Russia's North-Arctic regions is lower than the All-Russian one. On the basis of separately constructed informatization ratings for organizations and households of the North-Arctic regions of the Russia, the absence of dependence of the informatization process of organizations and the process of informatization of households has been determined. It has been determined that households are usually characterized by higher informatization in comparison with the all-Russian situation. It is a consequence of the increased informatization need in everyday life because of such special factors as peripherality, frigid climate discomfort and, at the same time, the possibility of informatization costs due to high population income in these regions. In the course of discussing the conditions and measures aimed at intensifying the processes of informatization of Russia's North-Arctic regions, it was noted that regions with similar socio-economic and geographical characteristics often differ from each other on the level of informatization very significantly. It has proved the insufficiency of the regional policy of Russia's North-Arctic regions (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK