dynamics of job and wealth creation in the digital age
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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
world
where value creation will be fast, fluid, and
persistently disruptive.
The Implication
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 to
deliver 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
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 Environment
New 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 Environment
Nigerian
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.
Digital technology
drives achieving new levels of
performance through applications that
automate previously integrated processes
or accompany and augment human
performance.
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 Literacy
The 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 includes
a large variety of complex skills:
cognitive, motoric, sociological, and
emotional
that users need to have to be effective
in digital environments.
The Big ???????The readiness of Nigeria
to provide workforce and
students/graduates with skills
to propel new ways of
thinking that today’s work
environment demands is in
doubt;
Most measures are palliatives
Every citizen 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 SuccessTraining
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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Assess to Retool and Skill
Conduct a standardized assessment of competencies in Digital Literacy on your
workforce using IC3 Fast Track to:
• Provide guidance for development of a seamless continuum of ICT digital
literacy skills.
• Assist in identifying digital literacy skills gaps for advancement to full
proficiency.
• Provide a reliable performance guide for use in diagnosis and continuous
improvement of workers.
• Provide basis for validation of competency in digital literacy skills
achievements on globally acceptable standards and performance indicators.
The stepping-stone into the ICT certificationpathway, a fundamental tool for measuringproficiency in the latest key technologies for study,work and life.
IC3 was created by Certiport, Inc. in 2000 to address the need for a globally recognized and
accepted standard of basic computing knowledge considered fundamental to academic learning and a minimum requirement for employment -
Wikipedia.
IC3, The Stepping Stone
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.
Repositioning Nigeria For The Digital Era
Demonstration of competence in English language is no
longer enough indicator of literacy and job readiness in
the Digital Era
Hiring, onboarding and engagement practices are now to
attract and retain young, tech-savvy talent workforce;
very different from the one that’s already at work and that
can function in work environment created by cutting-
edge collaboration tools, wearables, augmented reality,
and real-time analytics.
Going the Extra MilesNigerians need to go beyond
the three R’s to be
• Creative and Job ready
• Cope with the challenges
of the 21st century
• Think critically
• Solve problems
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.
Our Goal
Give entry level personnel skills
that employers recognize. Skills
they can apply from day 1
Our Goal• Create a culture of personnel wanting to upskill
• Lifelong learning – to keep themselves, companies
and communities ahead
Lifelong Learning
Create Jobs and Wealth?
There is no question
about what we need to do to create
jobs, turn around our economic
stagnation, and create optimism for
Nigerian families and
businesses.
We know that we cannot simply give tax breaks
to big corporations and expect the benefits to
trickle down.
Instead, we need to invest in the building
blocks of innovation and empower the next
generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and
motivated, everyday working Nigerians to
“trickle up” and invent their own destinies.
Building Blocks of Job and Wealth Creation
• Skilled, able, and empowered workers who can do
and create the kinds of jobs of the digital era.
• Robust system of fundamental science and
technology research, a must for country that seeks
to be competitive in the cutting-edge 21st century
economy
• Application of invention and discovery to economic
good.
• Free flow of ideas to sustaining innovation.
• Free-flowing financial capital to fund all of
the actors in the networks of Jobs and
Wealth creation
• Government readiness to engage with the
21st century innovation dynamics that will
determine who will win the future.
Dawn of the Digital Era• Rethink education and invest in better education
• Rethink capacity development and invest in worker
retraining to retool and skill programs to help the smart,
educated, and out-of-work individuals learn new skills and
adapt to the rapidly changing demands of the digital era.
• Reform immigration policies so the best and brightest are
encouraged to stay here and lend their creativity to the
collective genius of our nation.
• Overhauling and integration of Federal funding and loan
programs
• Funding of fundamental science and technology research and
development in universities and federal labs, and creating wise
incentives for the private sector to continue to do the same
• Investing in the active base of science, technology and research
to foster institutional infrastructure that helps networks of
investors, researchers, manufacturers, and customers come
together to create new markets, new industries, and new jobs
around innovative technologies and business models of the
Digital Era.
Rising to the ChallengeInvesting in the building blocks of innovation means fulfilling the
• Progressive vision for Nigeria.
Investing in educating our children, training our workers,
science and technology, reforming immigration, making
government work more effectively, and in the present and
future wellbeing of the productive class.
• Government statutory role to create jobs
Filling the void in Nigerian politics left by self-destruction and
intellectual bankruptcy of “the government can get out of the
way to create jobs.”
Unleash Human Potential.
Exposure to computer
does not equal understanding
computers
BRIDGE The DIGITAL GAP
Support Immediate
Empowerment of Nigerians
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 Direction
Initiate 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.
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
“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 ………
Thank you!
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