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This article is devoted to the current problems of the development of digitalization at enterprises of information and communication services in Ukraine, providing an assessment of the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the integrative development of the ICT business. Recently, the sphere of information and communication technologies has been one of the most dynamic and developed types of economic activity in Ukraine. This market is a conductor of Ukraine’s entry into the global economic and information space. This, in turn, requires the adoption of balanced and justified management decisions and strategic directions of development, which should be based on clearly defined tasks and means of achieving them on the basis of the use of monitoring and diagnostic tools. It is defined that the development of enterprises of information and communication services of Ukraine is of strategic importance for the complementary development of all spheres of the economy of Ukraine and constitutes a platform for forcing and raising proactive business segments in general. The analysis of empirical analytical materials has made it possible to identify insufficient rates of digitalization of the Ukrainian economy compared to the rates of European countries and leading countries of the world, though domestic enterprises of telecommunication services demonstrate positive dynamics of performance results. This indicates a stable positive dynamics in the development of the information and communication sector of economic activity. It is found that the largest consumption of information and communication services occurs in the city of Kyiv, in Donetsk and Odesa regions. At the same time, digital technologies and IT products actively integrate only up to 30% of businesses into their activities. Still, the digital transformation of economic activity in the context of globalization is a key strategic task for the integrative development of enterprises.

The article is aimed at defining the technological prerequisites for the digitization of the economy, to closer defining the essence and advantages of the term of «digital platform», outlining the problematics of the preservation and protection of information resources (confidential and personal information), cybersecurity. The innovative gradients of digital economic development are characterized through the prism of technological triggers, which require transformational changes in the economy, its digitalization. The author identifies the risks of transition to digitalization and the need for the efficient functioning of three components: regulatory framework for the use of digital technologies; skills that workers, businessmen, civil servants need in order to take advantage of digital technology opportunities; existence of efficient and accountable institutions that use the Internet to empower citizens. The term of «digital platform» is closer defined, which means a systematic approach to both understanding and creating the conditions of the digital economy. Digital economic development is proved to be directly dependent on the rapid introduction of innovative gradients based on the technological triggers, e.g.: BioTech, NanoTech, Digital-marketing, FinTech, BlockChain, RetailTech, LegalTech, Grid Technologies, GovTech, e-ID, thus creating a comfortable environment for the formation of digital platforms. The «digital platform» is characterized as a capable efficient association of market actors, whose efforts will be directed towards obtaining the maximum effect of the established interaction of all participants in the economic process. Active search and engagement with the help of digital platforms of all possible innovative gradients provides the maximum possible benefits to market actors.

The article is aimed at generalizing the essential content of the concepts of «blockchain» and «blockchain technology», defining the factors of the prerequisites for digitalization, carrying out an analysis of the application of blockchain technology by foreign countries and identifying its impact on formation of the newest segments of social and economic usage. The focus of the research is set to define the directions of achieving the goal by activating the introduction of innovative instruments for conduct of economic activity in the context of digitalization of the world economy. The problems of modern use of blockchain technology by foreign countries has been analyzed, the peculiarities together with the need to develop and create a legal and regulatory framework for the regulation of the latest digitalization processes have been identified in order to counter the malicious use, for example, with fraudulent projects and money laundering, and also with the purpose of formation of sources of filling the State Budget of Ukraine. The relevance of a timely understanding of the essence of blockchain technology, the ability to its optimal and efficient application is substantiated; the issues about possibility and efficiency of implementing innovative technologies for the formation and use of the countries’ intellectual potentials, along with timely response to the opportunities that emerge from the spread of digitalization, are researched. It is proposed to study and implement the leading experience of foreign countries, allowing to timely application of digital technologies and improving the competitiveness of the national economy as a whole. It is indicated that it would be appropriate to strengthen the role of the State as the main stakeholder, which consists in developing digitalization of the country and its institutions in general.

The impact of the development of the digital economy on reformatting the spheres of economic and public life is determined. It is revealed that the significant weight of financial and economic relations in the field of exchange, distribution and redistribution processes, which are manifested in cash flows, began to be occupied by transactions of electronic commodity-money circulation, requiring updated financial relations and providing for the formation and organization of payment systems, instruments based on the circulation of electronic money. The essence of electronic money, its subspecies has been clarified, the scope of application has been determined It is noted that in order to provide an updated path for the development of financial and economic relations, new payment systems are being formed, which, competing with each other, create more efficient and convenient platforms for making electronic payments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]