TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT

Measures taken by different states to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have aggra-vated the crisis signs and symptoms in socio-economic development of individual countries and the global world and have made the issues of their further changes particularly topical. Basing on the analysis of possible models of socio-economic development, the present article reveals the nature of the contemporary systemic crisis and proves the necessity of changing to a new paradigm of global values. It is revealed that necessary prerequisites for the transition to the new paradigm were created by the fourth industrial revolution. The authors clarify the understanding of information society as a stage in humankind evolution, based on the widespread use of digital technologies and the direct connection between production and consumption. The authors formulate the conditions for implementing the strategy of sustainable development of the global world, implying the harmonization of interests of different social groups and creation of a new social environment corresponding to the twenty-first century technologies. The article reveals that person's highest values are their identity and achievement of their personal best in the physical, intellectual or spiritual sense. In this connection, the strategic task for forming the future is to ensure the achievement of this unique, objectively existing global aim of the development of humankind, all countries and each person.