POSSIBILITIES OF DIGITALIZATION OF RUSSIAN CITIES USING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TOOLS

According to the UN, over the next 20 years, about 40% of the world's population will move to cities, and by 2050, 66% of the world's population will already be urban residents (World Urbanization Prospects, 2014). Modern cities face overpopulation, pressure on the environment, traffic load, growing social discomfort. Already, cities consume 65% of the world's energy and emit into the atmosphere 70% of all carbon dioxide produced by industry. However, in the future, cities should become a place for solving problems of inequality, poverty and unemployment. Achieving the limits of reliability and functionality of the existing urban infrastructure will lead to the need for another management of energy, materials and transport flows based on digitalization. In the scientific literature, such changes in the functions of a city are called intellectualization, and the city itself, under the new paradigm, is "smart." A smart city is an innovative city, the effective existence of which is ensured by information and telecommunication technologies. The interaction of "city-service, city dweller - consumer" in a smart city turns into cooperation. A public-private partnership (hereinafter - PPP) can provide a more dynamic implementation of tools of a smart city and bring significant social and economic benefits. The attractiveness of investments in tools of a smart city is due to the profitability of public sector investments, since these tools can quickly and easily scale (platform and network effects). (c) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK