Investing in people and developing digital skills are key to each country’s economic development, the second day of the Kopaonik Business Forum was commissioned.
Keeping a business forum on the mountain helps lecturers better explain what it is that is changing with the digital revolution.
The trails are steeper and faster, as workers’ awareness that there is no permanent employment changes, and trainings and continuous training are no longer a matter of their choice but an obligation to make the descent as successful as possible, in line with the requirements of digital time.
“The biggest challenge will not be to buy new machines in the digital revolution, but to invest in people. They need digital skills to help them read, analyze, and make informed decisions”, said Marko Tais, Chairman of the Forum for the world industry.
And in parallel with the business forum, a gathering on geopolitics in the digital age was held. A Harvard professor warned that the world has become black and white and polarized and that we live in a digital age with a flood of fake news.
“We live in an era where a lot of people are moving. We have not had much movement for centuries, and yet we have not yet experienced migration due to climate change. This is an era of increasing inequality between states, and ultra-right and ultra-leftist movements are intensifying within state”, said Ravi Abdelal, a professor at Harvard University.
The Prime Minister replies that Serbia is aware of these polarizations and that it does not want the grass on which elephants are fighting and pursuing such policies, and that the answer to the question is whether Serbia can use its chance in the fourth digital revolution.
“Everything is changing, but it is important that it gives us a whole new chance to make up for the missed, to position ourselves differently, to create different jobs, and to give us a chance not only for the economy to grow faster, but for wages to grow faster and, therefore, for quality of life. It will be different in Serbia in the next few years”, Ana Brnabic said.
This is exactly what Serbian businessmen say is crucial for economic development.
“It is good that at the same time we are talking about the fourth revolution and the investment cycle, I think they are going in parallel. This is the first part in terms of the investment cycle – to lift us from the level we are and to get closer to Europe. And, on the other hand, the fourth revolution we follow everything and take a step and only if we follow the process of digitization in companies, we can get public companies closer to the world”, says Dragoljub Vukadinovic from Metalac Group.
And in the world, as in Serbia, at the beginning, but also at the end, human capital is the most important and, as our interlocutors say, countries that invest in people can count on development in the long run, RTS reports.
