Poverty
Information economy, and at present – to a greater extent – postinformation economy has proved a striking fact of an enormously higher value of human potential, information and cultural wealth for the economy in comparison with natural resources and even monetary capital. Many cities and regions demonstrate abrupt change in welfare and life quality which is accounted for by nonstandard creative ideas. This can include the establishment of a festival or cultural phenomenon that attracts tourists, some legend that inspires the population, etc. The postinformation society evaluates personalized histories, exotics, fairy-tales, new wonders and adventures higher than any mass (even hi-tech) commodity.
The public initiative of the youth in developed countries may among other things with the benefit for themselves (it is called social entrepreneurship) develop movements and institutions for the spread of innovative means of life quality improvement in other countries: these are renewable sources of energy, convergent technologies (nanotechnologies: cheap water purifiers, chip laboratories, vaccines…; biotechnologies: effective agriculture, “commodities raising” …; IT: cheap computers and the Internet as sources of education, rational networks; international provision of innovative zones (including those for social innovations) –both for local population and stimulation of settlements for the population from more developed countries.
Possible solutions: Economy of histories (cultural peculiarities and landscape as a product), renewable sources of energy, convergent technologies (nanotechnologies: cheap water purifiers, chip laboratories, vaccines …; biotechnologies: effective agriculture, “commodities raising” …; IT: cheap computers and the Internet as sources of education, rational networks; international provision of innovative zones (including those for social innovations) –both for local population and stimulation of settlements for the population from more developed countries.