Harnessing the Opportunities of Inclusive Technologies in a Global Economy
Author: Gustavo Beliz
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Published: 2018
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Harnessing Technology for Inclusive Prosperity
Author: Brahima Coulibaly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0815740794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransformative new technologies are reshaping economies and societies. But as they create new opportunities, they also pose new challenges, not least of which is rising inequality. Increased disparities and related anxieties are stoking societal discontent and political ferment. Harnessing technological transformation in ways that foster its benefits, contain risks, and build inclusive prosperity is a major public policy challenge of our time and one that motivates this book. In what ways are the new technologies altering markets, business models, work, and, in turn, economic growth and income distribution? How are they affecting inequality within advanced and emerging economies and the prospects for economic convergence between them? What are the implications for public policy? What new thinking and adaptations are needed to realign institutions and policies, at national and global levels, with the new dynamics of the digital era? This book addresses these questions. It seeks to promote ideas and actions to manage digital transformation and the latest advances in artificial intelligence with foresight and purpose to shape a more prosperous and inclusive future.
Leveraging Diversity & Inclusion for a Global Economy
Author: Marjorie Derven
Publisher: ASTD
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 9781607284031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnsuring a highly-skilled workforce requires commitment from many players senior leaders in the public and private sectors, the education community, the workforce investment system, and training and development professionals. Each of these communities ensures that the workforce has the knowledge and skills that organizations need to grow and compete in today s knowledge economy. Written with the learning professional in mind, this Infoline includes: current research on where the skills gaps are in organizations, as well as demographic information a six-step process for bridging skills gaps case studies of successful strategies in action. A job aid to help you implement and customize a plan to address the skills gap in your own organization is also included.
The Future of Work in Africa
Author: Jieun Choi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2020-06-26
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1464814457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Future of Work in Africa focuses on the key themes of creating productive jobs and addressing the needs of those left behind. It highlights how global trends, especially the adoption of digital technologies, may change the nature of work in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating new opportunities and challenges. It argues that, contrary to global fears of worker displacement by new technologies, African countries can develop an inclusive future of work, with opportunities for lower-skilled workers. Harnessing these opportunities is, however, contingent on implementing policies and making productive investments in four main areas. These are enabling inclusive digital technologies; building human capital for a young, rapidly growing, and largely low-skilled labor force; increasing the productivity of informal workers and enterprises; and extending social protection coverage to mitigate the risks associated with disruptions to labor markets. This companion report to the World Bank’s World Development Report 2019 concludes with important policy questions that should guide future research, whose findings could lead to more inclusive growth for African nations.
Open Strategy for Digital Business
Author: Ewa Lechman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-29
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1040106994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers the reader a novel perspective on how digital contexts and open strategy approaches – the act of opening up strategic initiatives beyond company managers to involve front-line employees, stakeholders, and entrepreneurs – are related. Going beyond the claim that digital media drives open strategy by containing a detailed analyses of the interrelations between the two, the authors examine how ICT have diffused globally and trace the emerging links between digitally driven environments and open strategizing approaches. This book also draws a general picture of how and why digital technologies create new networks. A more competitive, transparent, empowered, and inclusive environment would enhance development and encourage novel approaches to strategies implemented. Real-life exemplifications of how and why digital technologies contribute to open strategizing are also provided. Various drivers impacting the necessity to develop more relational advantage are discussed and intertwined with the description of challenges observed in the case of imposing openness. A useful resource for researchers of strategic management and information systems, as well as those looking at digital strategy and transformation.
Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Author: Everisto Benyera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-11-09
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 3030875245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the epistemological, political, and socio-economic consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for Africa. Presenting various case studies on epistemic freedom, theology, race and robotics, tertiary education, political and economic transformation, human capital, and governance, it debates whether the 4IR will be part of the solution to the African problem, namely that of coloniality in its various forms. Solving the African problem using the 4IR requires ethical, just and epistemologically independent leadership. However, the lack of ICT infrastructure militates against Africa’s endeavours to make the 4IR a problem-solving moment. To its credit, Africa possesses some of the major capital needed (human, mineral, and social), and it constitutes a huge market comprising a young population eager to participate in the 4IR as problem-solvers and not as a problem to be solved—as equal citizens and not as the marginalized other.
Leveraging Diversity & Inclusion for a Global Economy
Author: Marjorie Derven
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 1562869531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForward-thinking organizations are embracing diversity and inclusion (D&I), and using it as a competitive edge in a world marked by increasing globalization and demographic shifts. For training and development professionals, understanding D&I and enhancing their expertise in the field demonstrates knowledge of changing business dynamics. This Infoline will: • increase awareness of diversity and inclusion • develop understanding of key demographic changes that affect the organization you support • serve as a guide to incorporate and sustain D&I practices in your company • help employees realize their full potential and develop their skills • provide guidelines for integrating D&I into your curriculum design.
Shifting Paradigms
Author: Zia Qureshi
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2022-01-11
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 081573901X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societies Rapid technological change—likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic—is reshaping economies and how they grow. But change also causes disruption, creates winners and losers, and produces social stress. This book examines the challenges of digital transformation and suggests how creative policies can make it more productive and inclusive. Shifting Paradigms is the second book on technological change produced by a joint research project of the Brookings Institution and the Korea Development Institute. Contributors are experts from the United States, Europe, and Korea. The first volume, Growth in a Time of Change, was published by Brookings in February 2020. The book's underlying thesis is that the future is arriving faster than expected. Long-accepted paradigms about economic growth are changing as digital technologies transform markets and nearly every aspect of business and work. Change will only intensify with advances in artificial intelligence and other innovations. Investors, business leaders, workers, and public officials face many questions. Is rising market concentration inevitable with the new technologies or can their benefits be more widely shared? How can the promise of FinTech be captured while managing risks? Should workers fear the new automation? Are technology-driven shifts in business and work causing income inequality to rise? How should public policy respond? Shifting Paradigms addresses these questions in an engaging manner for anyone interested in understanding how the economic and social agenda is being transformed by today's winds of change.
Harnessing Technology for Inclusive Prosperity
Author: Brahima Coulibaly
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2024-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780815740773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransformative new technologies are reshaping economies and societies. But as they create new opportunities, they also pose new challenges, not least of which is rising inequality. Increased disparities and related anxieties are stoking societal discontent and political ferment. Harnessing technological transformation in ways that foster its benefits, contain risks, and build inclusive prosperity is a major public policy challenge of our time and one that motivates this book. In what ways are the new technologies altering markets, business models, work, and, in turn, economic growth and income distribution? How are they affecting inequality within advanced and emerging economies and the prospects for economic convergence between them? What are the implications for public policy? What new thinking and adaptations are needed to realign institutions and policies, at national and global levels, with the new dynamics of the digital era? This book addresses these questions. It seeks to promote ideas and actions to manage digital transformation and the latest advances in artificial intelligence with foresight and purpose to shape a more prosperous and inclusive future.
Indo-Pacific Smart Megacity System
Author: T. M. Vinod Kumar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2024-01-19
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9819962188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an in-depth study of the Indo-Pacific region for effective interventions in the megacities system. First, based on several criteria, the region is identified as homogeneous country groupings of diversity, a multi-polar spatial system, and as program regions of QUAD and I2U2 for action programs and investment transcending many nations but mostly the ocean space of the Indo-Pacific, connecting all megacities sub-regions spatially and functionally. Then, the megacities with problems and prospects for economic integration are studied from the point of view of regional economics and international trade, and finally, the rural–urban interface with case studies of selected countries is presented. Prospects of systems of megacities and individual megacities for regional economies are designed. Existing interconnections through rail, air, and ocean of megacity systems, their capacity, performance, and potential are analyzed for emerging issues. International trade among the megacity systems/countries with emerging issues and barriers are presented. The mobility of money, goods, and services among the systems of megacities is analyzed. Rule-based diplomacy and other emerging options are discussed to sustain the above calls for a study of the Security of the Indo-Pacific region. Finally, the emerging architecture for megacity system governance is also presented. Out of 21 megacities in the Indo-Pacific, an in-depth study of a few in India and Japan in the Indo-Pacific region for effective economic interventions in the megacities system at the city level was studied. COVID-19 has affected most of the countries in the Indo-Pacific. With a contraction of GDP and a GDP growth rate negative, the number below the poverty level increased. Foreign Direct Investment is not forthcoming in any of these countries. Job creation becomes a priority in addition to public health concerns connected with COVID-19.
