Using AI to Improve Refugee Integration – Lund, Oxford, WPI
- October 4, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Digital dividends, Digital Inclusion, Industry 4.0, Skills
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Using machine learning and optimisation to find refugees’ new homes can significantly improve their chances of finding work within three months, according to new research.
Webinar: Making the Platform Economy Work Well for Workers (Nov 8) @ Eurofound
- October 3, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Courses, Digital dividends, Digital Inclusion, Policies, Workforce Resiliency
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On 8 November 2018 from 14:00 to 16:00 CET, Eurofound will host a webinar: Making the platform economy work well for workers.
Decent Work Complements Environmental Sustainability Says #WESO2018 – ILO
- September 22, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Future scenarios, Industry 4.0, Policies, Reports, Video
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The future of our economies, societies, and jobs depend on a stable and healthy environment. Some 1.2 billion jobs, or 40 percent of total world employment mainly in the Global South
Curse or Cure? Leaving No One Behind in an Age of Technological Revolution – UNDP
- September 17, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Conversations, Dialogue Series, Digital Inclusion, Industry 4.0, Policies, Video
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Digital technologies play an ever-increasing role in almost all sectors of society and across industries through increased use of better and faster internet, remote sensoring devices
On-Demand… and Organized! – ILO
- August 24, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Conversations, Digital dividends, Industry 4.0, Policies, Reports, Workforce Resiliency
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Pick up a magazine, access a blog or scroll through your Facebook feed, and you’re likely to see some reference to the gig economy.
The Digital Giants in 2018 – IMD
- August 8, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Conversations, Industry 4.0
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In mid-2017, we released a summary of the activities of 8 of the world’s largest digital giants, namely Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Snap, Alibaba, and Tencent.
Launch of UNSG’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation
- July 24, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Digital dividends, Digital Inclusion, Policies, Video
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Technological innovation’s unprecedented impacts will fundamentally change the working lives of people around the world.
4 Predictions for the Future of Work – WEF
- July 17, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Dialogue Series, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0, Skills, Workforce Resiliency
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I contemplate the future of work on a daily basis in both my professional and personal life. As a father of four children from four to 14 years old, and as a citizen of the world
Watch Live: Good Work in the New Machine Age – RSA
- July 4, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Conversations, Dialogue Series, Digital dividends, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0, Video, Workforce Resiliency
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From robotics that can pick and pack goods in warehouses with acute precision, to algorithms in healthcare that can diagnose cancers as accurately as trained pathologists
Flexibility in the Gig Economy: How Workers Manage Time on Online Piecework Platforms
- June 27, 2018
- Laura Monti
- Digital dividends, Future scenarios, Industry 4.0
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Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day.