bridging the digital gap
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Dr. Niran OyekaleCEO, Commit Technology & Consult
Limited
Bridging the Digital Gap:Developing Skills for
Today’s Work Place
The Paradigm ShiftFrom
The Industrial AgeTo
The Information AgeTo
The Creativity Age
These changes, among others, are ushering us toward
a world where knowledge, power, and productive
capability will be more dispersed than at any time in our
history— a worldwhere value creation will be fast, fluid, and
persistently disruptive.
The Implication
……..The Digital World
A Fast Changing World………..changing so fast
That the replication of more of the same knowledge and skills of the other days will not suffice to address the challenges of today,
not to talk of the future…
Era of OpportunitiesIncreasing levels of digital capability and digital density
create new opportunities to
change the terms of competition and
create digital disruption.
Digital disruption radically alters the work and
Work environment resulting in increased
expectations on workforce todeliver quality, impact,
and value
Digital Disruption Defined
Digital disruption is the delay or interruption to continuity
causing upsetting in the path of business and process developments
of the Digital Landscape
What’s more, The pace of digital disruption shows no signs of slowing as mobility, wearables, video, cloud, analytics, and other technologies continue to
transform the ways we live, work, learn, and play.
Coping With Digital Era• Demands new thinking about everything• Requests rebuilding many of the operational
and managerial strategies that have served well for decades, even centuries, but are no longer able, thus, bringing many traditional economic and social pillars of the industrial age to the end of their life cycle
• Prompts reinvention of new, networked model built around a new medium of human communications and the Net-Generation
The Paradox • No Nigerian university in the first 1,000
higher institutions of learning in the world and in the first 100 in Africa; South Africa 5, Egypt 4 QS World University Ranking,
• 50 million job seekers in Nigeria, global virtual workforce hits 1.3 billion by the end of 2015 International Data Corporation, IDC
• 250 thousand graduates released into Nigeria labour market every year, yet employers struggle to get staff
Automate Human Resourcefulness2/3
of all jobs in developing
countries could be susceptible to automation in the coming
decades
+ and -Across Industries, Disruption Reigns
and Opportunities Abound.No matter the industry, the Digital
Era is creating significant challenges for established
incumbents with more traditional models, as well as for innovative
upstarts
B As automation changes open up jobs in new fields.
75% of the global workforce will be
NEXT GEN
Jobs of Digital Era
Can You Imagine• In 2014, only 12.2 percent of the Fortune 500
companies from 1955 were still on the list, but with life expectancy continuing to decline.
• By 2020, 75 percent of businesses will be digital, or have digital business transformations underway. With only 30 percent likely to be successful, owing in part to a lack of specialized talent and technical expertise.(Gartner)
• 78 percent of organizations have not yet established the capability to manage and transform processes across different parts of their organization.
Changing Work EnvironmentNew collaborative and social technologies applications are already changing the way we work and the work environment; • Providing resources for a new generation of
workforce to work in ways that fit more naturally with the digital landscape
• Recognizing that job roles will be carried out differently over the years ahead
• Prompting both public and private institutions for capacity building to think differently about how to manage, inspire and empower the workforce
Deploy ICT, No Limitation to IT Impact
With the impact of digital technologies now felt not only in the IT department, but across the entire organization, a huge demand for digital skills is created. • Enormous training and re-skilling will be
required • Employees must now refresh their skills
more frequently to stay relevant in this rapidly changing digital environment.
Meeting Up with Changes in Work EnvironmentNigerian
workforce and students require far broader
range of skills and attributes than the technical
capability or competence that career practices
formerly demanded.
Keeping up to cope with the Digital Era requires more than putting
technology into the field but to creating amplified digital
capabilities that blend the best of both digital and human resources.
A Clear Indication of……..A strong need for comprehensive strategies that reach back to the youngest students and ensure that Tertiary Institutions’ graduates enter the modern workforce armed with critical technology competencies they need to succeed.
The real-world demands on Current
Workforce and student graduates
have drifted apart
The idea of a single education
followed by a single career is over
Adjust Mindset
• Adapt to the digital age• Imbibe new sets of global best
practices in terms of curriculum and pedagogies
• Re-tool and skill to global standards
Re- Defining LiteracyThe concept of literacy has long been redefined to mean abilities in the 3Rs (Read, wRite, aRithmetic) plus digital literacy. But, surprisingly, the pervasive application of the new definition is largely undermined.
Digital Literacy…What is it?
• The ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.
• A key enabler for building an inclusive society and knowledge based economy.
Digital Literacy
A new form of literacy that is fast becoming a prerequisite for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, without which citizens may neither be able to participate fully in the society nor acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to meet with 21st century national and international workplace needs.
DL… More Than Use of Software or Digital Devices
It includesa large variety of complex skills: cognitive, motoric, sociological,
and emotionalthat users need to have to be
effective in digital environments.
Fixing to Cope
Teachers and learners must be provided with: • 21st Century Skills = Innovative TP X Access
to Technology• Capacity to remain abreast of technology
developments• Competence to effectively use technology to
increase productivity and competitiveness in all aspects of teaching and learning.
Provide the Link
Take ControlReform capacity development of current workforce and students preparation to: • Nurture new Global and Mass graduates with
skills and knowledge, necessary for their long careers in the 21st Century world.
• Enhance productivity of and current workforce,
• Improve the relevance of education and services to the state.
Train for Success Training
to be a Versatilist to continuously adapt, learn and grow in a
fast-changing world and be able to apply a depth of skill to a progressively widening scope of situations and experiences, equally at ease with technical issues as with business strategy.
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Standing out with Global StandardsGlobal training and certification programs providing proof to the world that Nigerians are;• Equipped with the needed computer
skills to excel in a digital world. -• Capable of using a broad range of
computer technology.• Ready for challenges of work,
academic and life . • Positioned to advance career through
additional computer certification.
Reposition Nigeria For The Digital Era Demonstration of competence in English language is no longer enough indicator of literacy and job readiness any longer• Drive IC3 Digital Literacy as the standard and proof of
digital literacy competency among the academic and non academic members of staff and as minimum requirement for promotion, employment and appointment or engagement.
• Drive IC3 Digital Literacy as the standard and proof of digital literacy competency among the students and as minimum requirement for either admission or graduation
Reboot Nigeria Now• Bridge existing digital gap, thus solving the
associated skills gap among Nigeria tertiary institutions’ graduates.
• Benchmark a set of essential digital literacy skills to function in today's business world
• Avail the workforce/students of digital portfolio, proof of knowledge and proficiency required to make them more job-ready, marketable and competitive globally
• Earn the workforce/students industry-recognized credential, tools and skills set to enter into workforce armed to succeed in today's economy.
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Give existing workforce skills that can enhance their productivity
Our Goal
Our Goal
Give entry level personnel skills that employers recognize. Skills they can apply from day 1
Batch A
Batch A
Our Goal• Create a culture of personnel wanting to
upskill• Lifelong learning – to keep themselves,
companies and communities aheadLifelong Learning
Achieve A New Standard In
Digital Literacy
Certify to Industry Standards
Align with Conference of Higher Education Accreditation, CHEA
CHEA made it imperative for
Higher Education Regulators nationally and internationally
to begin to see with a different lens the relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of the increasing
interdependence and interconnection in the global landscape to glean best practices on accreditation of programmes and channel a new line of thinking in the area of Quality Assurance to prepare Higher
Education graduates for the dynamic challenges of the digital
age.
CHEA: What Lessons for Africa's Higher Education SystemTo capitalize on the gains of 2014 and 2015 CHEA conferences is to kick-start Digital Literacy implementation in all Higher Institutions to provide the essential foundation for the movement of Higher Education System to global level when:• Emphasis will shift from traditional teaching
methods to the emerging ICT-based methods, to which learners can easily relate.
• Institutions will go beyond teaching for its sake, to teaching that is outcome-based;
• Higher institutions see external quality assurance/assessment as complementary to the internal and both must be deployed to improve quality in the system
• Lecturers and administrators themselves become knowledge workers with 21st century skill sets.
• School leaders drive change, taking on new, collaborative roles and use inventive thinking to integrate the emerging “Science of Learning” (Digital Literacy) into the Higher Education Systems.
Conclusion
Aspire to possess in a step to foster equal
opportunities in the information revolution, digital economy and
be truly equipped for the mandate of 21st century
Take a Leap Today…Boost your EGO
Give A Digital DirectionInitiate yourself, workforce and
students into today’s digital world.
Equip all with critical level skills needed to be effective users of latest computer and internet technologies to achieve career objectives, expand productivity and improve profitability .
Prepare…..
“For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”African Proverb
Creation of Workforce of the Future…..will require a next-generation workforce that is digitally savvy,
creative, and accustomed to constant change in a convergence of Big Data, cloud, mobility, social media, mobile apps, setting the stage for the Digital
Era work environment
Running Against Machine? Educate the youth population
to create jobs and opportunities,economic benefits will be tremendous.
And likewise,Failure to provide youths with education for
employment, the size of unemployment problem to dwarf
the current situation and bring tremendous hardship with it.
21st Century Skills, 21st Century Solution
• Eradicate corruption • Eradicate poverty• Reduce and eliminate
unemployment• Re-positioning of education system • Diversification of economy
Unleash Human Potential.
Exposure to computer does not equal
understanding computers
BRIDGE The DIGITAL GAP
Support Immediate Empowerment of
Nigerians
“Nigeria would not change if Nigerians are given the same education and capacity that has taken Nigeria to its present state”.
A Word is Enough ………
The Decision Is Ours To Either
Restart Or
Shutdown55
God Bless Nigeria !!!!!
Thank you!
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