Аннотация:The paper analyzes the main processes occurring in the digital economy worldwide and shows the place and role of the Russian Federation in the implementation of these processes. The task of the study was to develop proposals for the formation of the sectoral ecosystem of the region's digital economy. It is shown that in the rating of countries introducing technologies for digitalization of economic relations, Russia is in the group of “novice leaders” (the level of digitalization is higher than the level of economic development) but so far lags behind the leading countries, such as South Korea, the Netherlands and China. The article substantiates the conclusion that it is advisable to build a virtual environment on the basis of university data centers constructed on the basis of new principles of the innovative engineering solution that allows it to scale and connect new participants, if required, without additional investments. The digital products and services platform is an essential element of the ecosystem of the digital regional economy and allows linking resources and consumers of products and services...