[Challenge:Future] SMK
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The document discusses youth unemployment and proposes solutions using information and communication technologies (ICT). It argues that the skills demanded by today's labor market focus on complex problem solving and pattern matching rather than routine tasks now performed by computers. ICT can help youth develop contextual skills for continuous learning and collaboration to create new ideas through knowledge and experience sharing. The team believes ICT provides a way to leverage these skills and fight unemployment endogenously by addressing today's complex challenges.
[Challenge:Future] SMK
- 1. Team: SMK David Alenga and Shomi Kim
- 2. • Identifying the peculiarities of today’s environment because “You cannot use yesterday’s tools to do today’s business and expect to be in business tomorrow.” • High youth unemployment is the result of a significant mismatch between the skills offered by young people and the demands of the labor market • For this reason, we propose the endogenous development theory pioneered by economist Paul Romer. Consistent with the theory, we believe that the tools for fighting youth unemployment are endogenous rather than exogenous factors. The human capital component, backed by knowledge and innovation holds promise. • Because the solution to youth unemployment is endogenously engrained, our team believes that ICT offers the best way for us to collaborate through extensive knowledge and experience sharing to create new ideas to respond to our peculiar situations.
- 3. We are not the “lost Generation:” We are the “facebook generation.” The generation that can use the power of ICT to embark on political revolutions Conventional school-centered-education is no path to employment but a dangerous slide down the dead end jobs and the abyss of careerism. “It emphasizes pre-digested information to build fluency in routine problem solving, rather than filtering data derived from experiences in complex settings to develop skills in sophisticated problem solving.”
- 4. The Fordist-Taylorist development model of mass production and manufacturing backed by the scientific application of scientific management of masses of people no longer holds true for the 21st century Economists Richard Murnane and Frank Levy blame educational systems that prepares people for a labor market that operated on routine cognitive work and routine manual labor--the type that has now been taken over by computers. The new source of employment is “expert thinking or complex communication—tasks that computers cannot do.”
- 5. They say “expert thinking involves effective pattern matching based on detailed knowledge; and metacognition, the set of skills used by the stumped expert to decide when to give up on one strategy and what to try next.” Youth unemployment is not the result of the global recession but because of the absence of the skills required to be economically active in this generation
- 6. A distinction has to be made between “contextual skills” and “perennial skills.” The labor market of the 21st century requires the former and less of the latter. Contextual skills refer to developing the required ways to respond to uncertain and rapidly evolving challenges in the real world. Knowledge and continuous learning are the wheels upon which the contextual skills roll.
- 7. Contextual skills comes down to information literacy, the type that will build the capacity of the individual to be able to use technology to mine information in order to construct knowledge, inspire creative thinking leading to creative product and service creation. The emphasis here is not on the proficiency of the technology itself but the intellectual activities that a person or group of persons are able to do with ICT.
- 8. ICT offers the chance for the continuous learning because ICT powered social networking platforms are the places where young people connect with each other, discuss issues as it pertains to their unique conditions, share experiences that can potentially lead to the creation of new ideas. We caution against the tendency to unilaterally plunge into self-employment because one feels the need to be employed. Self-employment should be driven by the ability to offer a creative idea to address real world challenges.
- 9. Folks must leverage the power of ICT to bring about the kind of impact of the Arab Spring. We hasten to offer specifics, because like the rest of the young people out there, the fight needs to be fought and it must start from somewhere that’s why ICT enables us to pull down the barricades of time and space through collaborative troubleshooting.
- 10. The challenges of our times is that problems are rarely clearly defined so we need to collaborate via information sharing in ways that will ensure that we confront the complex and uncertain realities that we have to deal with, such as those pertaining to the abstract elements that constructs the political, economic and social environments we live in. Like Hyundai Motors, our team believes that “New Thinking” brings about “New Possibilities.”