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Big Tech Firms Pledge Training For Workers In Southeast Asia
Techlife News
|November 25,2018
Microsoft, Google and other major technology companies have promised to help provide training in digital skills for around 20 million people in Southeast Asia by 2020 to make sure the region’s burgeoning working-age population is a fit for the future job market.
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Up to 28 million full-time jobs are subject to being displaced, according to a new estimate.
The World Economic Forum think tank announced this week its “ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020” initiative to improve the technological capacity of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations with training, funds for scholarships, internships and shaping the curricula of technology and computing courses, among other measures.
The forum is best known for its annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland, of top business and political leaders.
Southeast Asia is seeking to increase the digital skills of its workers as the shift to greater use of robots and other automation threatens to rob those without technological savvy of opportunities for employment, even in manufacturing and service industries.
This story is from the November 25,2018 edition of Techlife News.
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