Methodical Bases for the Regional Information Potential Estimation

The relevance of the investigated problem is caused by the need to assess the implementation of informatization level of the region and the insufficient development of the theoretical, content-technological, scientific and methodological aspects of the assessment of the region's information potential. The aim of the research work is to develop a methodology for assessing the information potential of the region and its approbation. The key method used while studying the problem is the method of multidimensional integral assessment of the region's informatization development level which allows to consider the problem from the system approach. Results: methodical approach to the assessment of the region's information potential, including 45 partial indicators of the information potential combined into five subgroups--indicators of the IT application level; indicators of economic activity results, based on the use of information and communication technologies in organizations; indicators of the technical security for informatization processes; indicators of the global information networks data use in the work, of the use of specialized information programs; and labor indicators and the integral indicator of the region's informatization development level. Practical value is determined by the formation of some theoretical and methodical aspects and recommendations for the development of regional information management, based on the improvement of methodical principles and instruments for the assessment of information processes in the region.