A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital
The knowledge, skills, and abilities that human capital offers create tangible and intangible assets that equip organizations to thrive. In particular, in today’s Industry 4.0 environment, training, recruiting, and retaining highly qualified ICT-ready professionals remains a problem for many organiz...
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Italian e-Learning Association
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| author | Antonella Carbonaro Jennifer Moss Breen Filippo Piccinini |
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| description | The knowledge, skills, and abilities that human capital offers create tangible and intangible assets that equip organizations to thrive. In particular, in today’s Industry 4.0 environment, training, recruiting, and retaining highly qualified ICT-ready professionals remains a problem for many organizations including educational, governmental, healthcare, and business organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the importance of digital assets to our economies, and it is also demonstrating that there is potentially a new digital divide with even worse implications for companies, economies, and society, which is threatening the resilience of business, governance, and society. In this paper, 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?”
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d704fe558e842bdb9c6e4733aae507f2022-12-31T19:44:45ZengItalian e-Learning AssociationJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society1826-62231971-88292022-12-0118310.20368/1971-8829/1135567A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capitalAntonella CarbonaroJennifer Moss Breen 0Filippo Piccinini1Creighton University, College of Professional and Continuing Education University of Bologna, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine The knowledge, skills, and abilities that human capital offers create tangible and intangible assets that equip organizations to thrive. In particular, in today’s Industry 4.0 environment, training, recruiting, and retaining highly qualified ICT-ready professionals remains a problem for many organizations including educational, governmental, healthcare, and business organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the importance of digital assets to our economies, and it is also demonstrating that there is potentially a new digital divide with even worse implications for companies, economies, and society, which is threatening the resilience of business, governance, and society. In this paper, 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?” https://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/1135567Human CapitalKnowledge-based EconomyICTOpen Ecuation |
| spellingShingle | Antonella Carbonaro Jennifer Moss Breen Filippo Piccinini A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital Je-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society Human Capital Knowledge-based Economy ICT Open Ecuation |
| title | A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital |
| title_full | A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital |
| title_fullStr | A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital |
| title_short | A new digital divide threatening resilience: exploring the need for educational, firm-based, and societal investments in ICT human capital |
| title_sort | new digital divide threatening resilience exploring the need for educational firm based and societal investments in ict human capital |
| topic | Human Capital Knowledge-based Economy ICT Open Ecuation |
| url | https://www.je-lks.org/ojs/index.php/Je-LKS_EN/article/view/1135567 |
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