1. Assessment of the impact of new ICTs on human capital
ITU Workshop on
“ICT Innovations in Emerging Economies”
(Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014)
Assessment of the impact of new ICTs on human capital
Dr. Prof. Viliam Sarian, Director of Science & Education Center, FSUE NIIR, Russia
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

2. Recent ITU study on problems of ICT development
ITU-D SG 2 (Information and communication infrastructure and technology development, emergency telecommunications and climate-change adaptation)
Focus Group “Bridging the Gap: From Innovation to Standards”
Various workshops, e.g. “Future Networks standardization” (June, 2012)
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

3. Stages of information society (IS) development
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

4. Basis for the 5th stage of IS development
The success in NGNs, WSNs, IoT development and their convergence;
The achievements in the area of cognitive- and nanotechnologies, i. e. public access to positioning and navigation technologies, and also to geoinformational technologies;
Big Data organizing, etc.
Involving “smart things” (ST) and “smart environment” (SE) in the communication process
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

5. Problems of the 5th stage of IS development
resources scarcity,
risk society entering,
ecological situation,
man-made environment pressure growth,
the increase of pace of life and population mobility,
globalization processes, demographic problems
extension of social inequality
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

6. The 6th Technological Stage
Milliards of new objects – Internet of Things
Customized production and individual consumption development
Raise of production’s flexibility
Sharp decrease in power-consuming and materials consumption
Construction of materials and organisms with preset qualities
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

7. ICT development problems of 6th Technological Stage
Standardization gap: low involvement of developing countries in the work on creation new standards and recommendations
Manufacturers do not take into account need of developing countries
Lag between investments and return on them is too long for developing countries (more than technology obsolescence period)
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

8. The main obstacle to adopt socioeconomical standards
Human capital
Mean service provision time, mean time between failures,…
Bitrate, time delay, …
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

9. Conclusions and Recommendations
Compared to other fields ICT has the strongest possibility of receiving data that can be utilized for social analysis
The 6th Technological Stage brings new possibilities and new problems
For the 6th Technological Stage it is necessary to develop a framework for connection of technical indicators and human capital metrics
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014

10. Thank you!
Dr. Prof. Viliam Sarian, Director of Science & Education Center, FSUE NIIR, Russia
Tunis, Tunisia, 28 January 2014