Digital footprint as an indicator of the results of reform of agricultural research organizations

Issue № 3, 2025, article № 3, pages 24-31

Section: Digitalization in agrarian and industrial complex

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЦИФРОВОЙ СЛЕД КАК ИНДИКАТОР РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ РЕФОРМЫ АГРАРНОЙ НАУКИ

Keywords: DIGITAL FOOTPRINT, SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS, AGRICULTURE, RATINGS, METHODOLOGY, SCIENCE REFORM

Abstract: The dominant role of Internet technologies in matters of informing all layers of society has led to the emergence of such a digital tool for assessing the activities of organizations and individuals as a digital footprint. Therefore, in the work, based on the state of information resources on the websites of agricultural research organizations (RO), their ability to adequately respond to emerging threatening political and economic challenges for the country using such a tool is assessed, both for those that have undergone the reform procedure started in 2013 and for those that have retained their previous status. For this purpose, based on the conducted classification of digital footprints, appropriate methods for their formation are proposed with subsequent verification using the materials of two monitoring sessions of RO websites. The information resources of the websites are defined as scientific and educational resources, the demand for which was ontologically identified based on an extensive survey of businesses and budgetary structures, including scientific and educational ones in 22 regions of the country. A comparative analysis of the response to the challenges of the above-mentioned RO groups to emerging requests for science from various layers of society is provided. Research has shown that the science reform has proven to be untenable, since at first not a single RО group responded to business requests during the pandemic, and now to requests related to sanctions, which to a large extent served as the reason for large holdings to create their own scientific laboratories and IT structures due to the lack of a mechanism for transferring innovations to the economy in the country. Thus, the head of one of the agricultural holdings at a meeting on June 7, 2023 in the Voronezh Region on the digitalization of agriculture said that science owes a great debt to production.

Authors: Medennikov Viktor Ivanovich