HUMAN RESOURCES IN ICT - INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY AS THE QUALIFICATION PREREQUISITES

In the article it is argued, that the main importance of human resources in ICT lies in the literacy of the people, not technologies. Various kinds of literacy from information literacy to technological one are discussed as qualification prerequisites of modern labour. Author later points out, that our educational system holds back and has troubles to accommodate changing nature of qualification requirements of the ICT industry. The new information society requires an entirely new concept of human labor, new conditions require "new people", and it redefines and significantly, expands general training (educational) requirements. Former insistence on "factual" education ceases to be essential in the era of Wikipedia and Google and it turns out that for flexible and powerful grasp of new information technologies is essential to redefine traditional qualification prerequisites. This article was created and presented on the IDIMT conference thanks to the finances provided by IGA grant "IGA - 32/2010".