Human Capital of the Russian Elite as a Factor of Digital Technologies Development in Administration

Abstract

Nowadays the world leaders in social and economic development are the countries, which have learned better than most how to form and implement the human capital, skills, knowledge, and competencies of people, their abilities for continuation training and the application of digital technologies in the innovative economy. Economies of the developed countries more and more rely on human capital as a factor of growth and an immense resource for digitization of social and economic systems management and the social and economic development of the country in general. This can be easily seen through the example of such countries as Japan, South Korea, and Germany, which significantly outrun the Russian Federation in this sphere. Thus, South Korea with a population of 53 mln and the territory half the size of our Kamchatka peninsula, in 2018 was surpassing the vast Russia with its innumerable natural resources in nominal GDP. And such a country as Singapore surpasses the Russian Federation by several times in GDP per capita. That is why the extensive use of digital technologies in managing social and economic systems in the Russian Federation becomes a top-priority goal in the state economic and social policy, and one of the most important vectors aimed at achieving the strategic goals and objectives, determined in the May (2018) decree of the President of the Russian Federation and his address to the Federal Assembly. The paper analyzes the human capital of the Russian elite and its influence on social and economic development of our country.