POPULATION’S READINESS TO SWITCH TO ELECTRONIC PASSPORTS IN PENZA REGION 

Supikov Vadim Nikolaevich, Doctor of sociological sciences, professor, sub-department of public administration and regional sociology, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), gmu@pnzgu.ru
Yurasov Igor' Alekseevich, Doctor of sociological sciences, associate professor, professor at the sub-department of public administration and regional sociology, Penza State University ( 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia); director of the Applied Research Center of the Institute of Regional Development  of Penza region (40 Popova street, Penza, Russia), jurassow@mail.ru
Yurasova Ol'ga Nikolaevna, Associate professor, sub-department of English language, Penza State University (40 Krasnaya street, Penza, Russia), jurassow@mail.ru

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10.21685/2072-3016-2016-4-17

Background. The problem of Russia’s conversion to the innovative path of development often encounters the quality of population, in particular, the unreadiness of Russians to apprehend and use political, economic and social innovations. It becomes an important feature of human capital in regions and subjects of the Russian Federation. The competition between subjects of the Russian Federation for resources, subsidies will determined to a large extent by the quality of human resource development in a region with its particular indicator being the ability of population to apprehend and use technological innovations. As for the indicator of the degree of population’s innovative character, the authors suggest to use the indicator of “population’s readiness to switch to electronic passports” as such. On this basis it is possible to give recommendations on adjustment of work with regional population.The aim of the study is to reveal Penza region citizens’ attitude towards innovative forms of state record and supervision of population.
Materials and methods. The research was carried out using mass, expert surveys and depth interviews.
Conclusions. According to the research results the population of Penza and Penza region is not ready to switch to electronic passports. Following these findings the authors have concluded about a low level of population’s awareness of technological innovations and population’s unreadiness to adopt technological innovations, which is an important indicator of low innovative activity of Penza citizens.

innovations, regional innovative capital, new types of communication, electronic passport, monitoring

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