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10 clusters and communities. According to the community digital transformation index, the gap between leading and lagging communities exceeds sixfold (upper range – 56.5–64.4, lower – 29.8–30.7). Significant disparities are also evident in the sub- indices: for ‗digital skills‘, the Ternopil region has a value of 100.0, whilst the Cherkasy region has 31.40; for ‗digital infrastructure‘, the Kyiv region scores 81.8, and the Donetsk region 27.24 [6]. This indicates the fragmentation of the meso-level and uneven capacity for transmitting innovative impulses. Institutional hubs play a significant role in the meso-economic sphere: science parks (40), university programmes in the field of artificial intelligence (106 programmes at 42 universities) and AI specialists (around 5,200 people) [3]. However, their influence depends on the density of horizontal links between business, science and government. In the absence of such density, even powerful macroeconomic stimuli do not produce a cumulative effect at the level of regional production systems. The networked nature of digital signal transmission is reflected in the platformisation of interactions. The ‗Dія‘ ecosystem encompasses 23 million users, over 25,000 organisations and more than 100 online services [7]. At the same time, the bandwidth of transmission channels is limited by infrastructure and competence asymmetries: the average mobile internet speed in Ukraine (43.30 Mbps) is 3.3 times lower than in high-income countries; the proportion of the population with advanced digital skills is only 1.6%, compared to 9.8% in high-income countries [1; 2; 6].