INFORMATION ECONOMY: A CHANCE TO BUILD A NEW MODEL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OR AN ILLUSION OF A CHANCE?

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of the informational model of development, which arose at the turn of the XX and XXI centuries as a result of the information and technological revolution (ITR). The information economy, its features, ways of formation and contradictions are characterized. On the basis of statistical data, it is shown how the information economy affects the socio-economic situation of various segments of the population in developed and developing countries, particularly in Ukraine. It is proved that ITR, computerization and digitalization of all spheres of public life ultimately leads to the collapse of an existing mature socio-economic system. After all, according to the laws of dialectics, it has become internally contradictory, but at the same time it is a developed element of the next socio-economic system.
It is substantiated that Ukraine will not be able to switch to the information economy and form a new model of development unless the real causes of the failure of reforms in the country are resolved. Their consequences are: stagnation, structural deformations, deindustrialization, the outflow of highly qualified personnel abroad, dependence on advanced technologies and external sources of financing, almost total poverty and excessive income differentiation, which reproduces continuous social contradictions.
In the author’s opinion, to ensure Ukraine’s transition to the information economy it is necessary to develop a program of strategic development of the country. Such a program should be formed on the basis of integrated social science and technological justification, which will contribute to the renewal of production, bring it closer to the world standards and ensure the socio-economic needs of the Ukrainian people in accordance with adequate modern international standards.