Social challenges of digitalization and global approaches to responding them

Abstract

The article shows the dual and contradictory nature of digitalization as a process of forming a system of economic, social and cultural relations based on the use of digital information and communication technologies. The main reason and consequences of the global spread of the latest scientific and technological achievements are revealed, associated with the accelerated formation of a technotronic and information base of a higher socio-technological mode of production, a new global technological-organizational and managerial base of social reproduction, as well as a global information and network economy with a potential for gradual transition to the noosphereization of economic systems. The authors consider the issue of overcoming the deficit of social justice in the context of the social challenges of digitalization, and show the role of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, created by the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO). The key social challenges generated by the spread of digital and new technologies are identified and characterized, namely: aggravation of employment problems and imbalance of labor markets; the need to transform educational systems and their high-level adaptation to the needs of modern labor markets; acceleration of the processes of precarization of societies; deepening digital and social inequality; aggravation of cybersecurity problems; and increasing threats associated with human socialization. The article identifies various characteristic effects of digitalization on the sphere of employment and reveals the factors of digital and social inequality. The authors show the need to transform educational systems and adapt them to the needs of modern labor markets, caused by digitalization. It is noted that in the digital era, an important task for international structures and national governments is to promote the strengthening of social justice and effectively respond to the social challenges of the digitalization of economies and societies. In the case of countries engulfed in a full-scale war, in particular Ukraine, and post-conflict countries, the relevant regulatory approaches should be adjusted, taking into account the realities of martial law and the tasks of post-war recovery.

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