TY - GEN
T1 - Global Impacts of ICT-Qualified Worker Shortage
T2 - Research and Innovation Forum, Rii Forum 2021
AU - Breen, Jennifer Moss
AU - Carbonaro, Antonella
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In today’s Industry 4.0 environment, recruiting, training, and retaining highly qualified ICT-ready professionals remains a problem for many organizations including educational, governmental, healthcare, and business organizations. Through an in-depth literature review and syntheses, we respond to the question “how can we develop ICT human capital in our global economy in an equitable, inclusive, and purposeful manner such that not organizations thrive, but also to promote social justice and equity in our global economy?” In particular, the paper analyses the major obstacles that need to be overcome in order to direct educational aspirations towards STEM education pathways, so that the demand for more people trained in ICT can be met, describing the inequalities of opportunity and the transformations, both internal and external, to which higher education institutions are called to undergo. To accomplish this broad research goal, we intend to utilize a grounded theory approach, utilizing rich data that informs the development of frameworks that address the ICT human capital shortage as well as encouraging equitable, inclusive and purposeful methods to diversify ICT-qualified workers. Data that informs this work will be drawn from varied organizations, including HEI, business, government, and healthcare and education.
AB - In today’s Industry 4.0 environment, recruiting, training, and retaining highly qualified ICT-ready professionals remains a problem for many organizations including educational, governmental, healthcare, and business organizations. Through an in-depth literature review and syntheses, we respond to the question “how can we develop ICT human capital in our global economy in an equitable, inclusive, and purposeful manner such that not organizations thrive, but also to promote social justice and equity in our global economy?” In particular, the paper analyses the major obstacles that need to be overcome in order to direct educational aspirations towards STEM education pathways, so that the demand for more people trained in ICT can be met, describing the inequalities of opportunity and the transformations, both internal and external, to which higher education institutions are called to undergo. To accomplish this broad research goal, we intend to utilize a grounded theory approach, utilizing rich data that informs the development of frameworks that address the ICT human capital shortage as well as encouraging equitable, inclusive and purposeful methods to diversify ICT-qualified workers. Data that informs this work will be drawn from varied organizations, including HEI, business, government, and healthcare and education.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-84311-3_53
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84311-3_53
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116437165
SN - 9783030843106
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Complexity
SP - 589
EP - 598
BT - Research and Innovation Forum 2021 - Managing Continuity, Innovation, and Change in the Post-Covid World
A2 - Visvizi, Anna
A2 - Troisi, Orlando
A2 - Saeedi, Kawther
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Y2 - 7 April 2021 through 9 April 2021
ER -