Digital state plan ("Gosplan"): key parameters, approaches to legal regulation, the need for modeling, challenges and prospects

From the perspective of analyzing the idea of preparing a unified digital planning model, the digital State plan proposed by experts from the scientific and educational community and discussed by practitioners is examined in the article. The article touches upon the main parameters, approaches to legal regulation, the need for prototyping, and challenges and prospects for the development and implementation of this idea. The work uses dialectical and other general and specific scientific methods, such as comparative legal analysis, historical analysis, synthesis, and others. The author notes that the idea for creating an automated system for collecting and processing data for accounting, planning, and managing the national economy (OGAS) was discussed in the USSR but was not implemented at that time. The text outlines the contours of Russia's strategy to gain technological independence by reducing dependence on foreign technologies and ensuring information security and control including the introduction of a digital ruble and legal regulation of platform economies, the commissioning of domestic messengers such as Max, etc. to implement the idea discussed. Examples of foreign models (of the EU, USA, China) for achieving an effect similar to that stated are given. The author reveals the theoretical basis for the idea of digital State plan and emphasizes that the experience of the USSR in creating and launching products, working with ministries, scientific and production associations, and defining industry and technical specializations is useful. The author emphasizes the aspects of the possible use of digital State plan in planning at the present stage saying that the State plan will no longer dictate strict requirements but rather act as a coordinator and assistant providing support through government orders, tax incentives, investment support, quality regulation, and standards. The prospect of using algorithms and artificial intelligence systems based on the digital State plan, through integration, for example, by way of synergy between inter-departmental interaction and other interactions (between enterprises and government agencies, etc.), is shown. A number of recommendations are provided for implementing the digital State plan.