Human Capital Importance in the Internet Environment

Abstract

At the present stage of the countries development, digital technologies, innovative models penetrate into all spheres of the society, influencing the economy essence, creating high-quality structural configurations in it. The importance of human capital factors for the advanced and meaningful use of the ICT (information and communication technologies) is also well demonstrated by the analysis of the e-development determinant. Today the Internet has become an integral part of the human capital. Its use removes the time and space restrictions on communication, the access to information and social services.

The article considers the importance of digital technologies for human capital, studies foreign experience in using digital technologies, presents the level of the digital development, indicates the priorities in the digital economy of leading, promising, slowing down and problem countries, analyzes the use of the Internet by the population of Russia and foreign countries, substantiates the need for human capital in the Internet environment for a modern person.

The Internet in the life of a modern person is a necessary tool that helps in work, communication and leisure. The development of the Internet and related technologies in the near future may lead to the fact that it will become the leading mass media and the most important information resource that ensures the functioning of all structures of society. The Internet is rapidly turning into a «virtual state», erasing national borders, creating its own cyber culture. The role of human capital in the Internet environment is growing steadily, the positive features of the Internet's influence on a person: the largest and the most updated source of information in the world.