STRATEGY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT 2020. The abovementioned facts confirm that, as is the case in the EU, a huge deficit of the ICT skills, both the basic and the advanced, is evident in Montenegro. What is also emerging as a conclusion is that the existing education system and programs (formal and informal) will not mitigate this deficit in the coming years. Strategic development tools The technological revolution turned the concept of non-formal education and lifelong learning into an urgent human need. The result of the dynamic development of the technology is that the knowledge becomes obsolete very fast. Moreover, as a result of the rapid changes in the technology, labor mobility and market demands of each individual’s career will be transformed up to five times during their lifetime. In this context, we come to the conclusion that the professional development is required because of the retention of the existing positions as well as due to the increase in the competitive position of the individuals in the labor market. Thus, the traditional concept of a career is becoming history in the digital age. According to a research, the competencies that a worker acquires during the seven year period of work get outdated and are of no use in the business operations anymore, so the worker has to acquire completely new competencies after that time. Starting with abovementioned circumstances, one of the strategic tools of the development must be encouraging the greater use of the Internet by all structures of society, as well as the acquisition of digital competences. The second main action must be focused on creating a greater number of the ICT experts. Also, the efforts should be focused on eliminating the digital gap between generations, while bearing in mind that a significant percent of the workforce in Montenegro use the modern technology insufficiently. The emphasis should be on encouraging women towards the education and career in the ICT, because women comprise less than 30% of the workforce in the ICT, and only 19% of them are ICT managers, according to the European Commission surveys. When it comes to local circumstances, the finds from the MONSTAT survey on the use of information-communication technologies in Montenegro point to the fact that 30.7% of women have never used the computer, which is one of the reasons to organize a targeted campaign on raising awareness of women on the importance of the digital competencies. Strengthening human resources for the development and application of the ICT is a challenge for all segments of the society, particularly for the educational system, which must generate the knowledge and the skills that can, as a direct invest-