[LINK] Tomorrow’s Digitally Enabled Workforce

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the Sydney Opera House where Senator Michaelia Cash, 
Minister for Employment, launced the report "Tomorrow’s Digitally 
Enabled Workforce" (Hajkowicz, Reeson, Rudd, Bratanova, Hodgers, Mason 
and Boughen, 2016): 
http://acs.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/95103/16-0026_DATA61_REPORT_TomorrowsDigiallyEnabledWorkforce_WEB_160128.pdf

The report does not contain any new insights on the future of work, but 
is a useful compilation of conventional wisdom: IT will take over many 
jobs and the workforce needs to be trained for more high-tech and also 
human focused roles, with continual learning.The area where the report 
is weak is in policy implications. After outlining what is going to 
happen, the report does not really say what we, as a nation, should do 
about it. As an educator, to me the implications are clear: we need to 
train people with tech and social skills, but most importantly, people 
who know about how to learn: 
http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2016/02/tomorrows-digitally-enabled-workforce.html 



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