For several years now, the theme of the jobs of the future has been resonating and whether education is really addressing the coming challenges for society and the new generations in a comprehensive manner. These answers are crossed by all kinds of interests and where uncertainty abounds. We are only sure that these works will be very different from the current ones.
The pandemic was the great catalyst for what many authors call the “Knowledge Age” and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by the digitization and automation of processes, incorporating the use of Artificial Intelligence and data processing.
This digitization was accompanied by work in a 100% remote mode supported by the software industry and new technologies.
It is not trivial that within the 10 richest billionaires in the world valued by Forbes at the end of August 2022, 7 of them belong to the category of new technologies: Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Page of Google, Sergey Brin of Google, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft.
To a large extent, the innovation of these companies is linked to the development of new capabilities, driven by software development, cloud computing, connectivity and data processing.
According to the report of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published in 2014, it is expected that by 2025 cities such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo, San José, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Bogotá, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Córdoba and Santiago they will be important poles of software development and information technologies. Estimating that by that date the industry will employ more than 1.2 million people and generate sales of more than 18,500 million dollars throughout Latin America.
In this sense, the current Minister of Economy, Serge Massarecently launched through the Knowledge Economy Secretariat, a new stage of the Argentina Program 4.0 plan, a platform aimed at training 70,000 people in basic programming skills for software development.
The Minister of Economy and the Secretary of Knowledge Economy Ariel Sujarchuk participated in a Work Table together with the heads of the Ministries of Education and Science and Technology of the Nation, Jaime Perczyk and Daniel Filmus.
These new tools must be adopted from an early age, and for this certain access conditions must be guaranteed, as Jaime Perczyk indicated at the beginning of July at the Pre-Summit on the Transformation of Education organized by UNESCO in France, where he highlighted that “ This year we are going to deliver 1.6 million netbooks and the development of virtual classrooms, repositories of information and digital educational resources, and by the end of 2022, 90% of students across the country will have connectivity in their establishments”, emphasizing that in addition “School must prepare for work, production, art, sports, culture, and must allow everyone to train for the future.” Recently, on September 7, during the handover of the equipment, the aforementioned Minister of Education once again remarked that each computer has the name of its owner because “it is not a gift, but rather a right that arises from a public policy.”
It is possible to appreciate that there are more than 1,800 companies associated with the Chamber of the Argentine Software Industry (CESSI), which brings together regional entities dedicated to the development, production, marketing and implementation of software and all variants of services throughout the country. .]
In this regard, it is necessary that SMEs can also absorb new qualified workers, opening the possibility of internal development, and thus preventing large transnationals from also monopolizing the hiring of this type of strategic human resource.
The calls for Seed Capital and Non-Refundable Contributions (ANR), can be a solution for these SMEs to improve their infrastructure and projection, taking advantage of the growth of this industry. It is a sector that, in addition to generating great added value, would have a significant regional impact by boosting consumption.
In this sense, thanks to the initiatives for new international interconnection nodes, private trunk networks and ARSAT’s Federal Fiber Optic Network (REFEFO), the limitations for the location of new technological poles are less and less.
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Kindness: The Labor Observatory
Recently, Enacom approved through Resolution No. 1556/2022 a project to extend the REFEFO to the provinces of Jujuy, Salta and Tucumán. The goal is to extend the capillarity of the network in the three provinces by up to 590 kilometers and connect 17 new locations in Northwest Argentina (NOA).
For the exposed, It is feasible to contribute to social and labor inclusion and accompany the development of software in each region of the country, through the application of specific policies that promote articulation and integration with other sectors, between SMEs, Cooperatives, social organizations, unions, Universities and the State.
It is a great opportunity to guarantee a quality labor source at the national level that encourages the insertion of youth in this new thriving market. From the OECYT we believe that it would be an irreparable mistake to lose the opportunities offered by the current scenario marked by the digital revolution.
Arístides Silvestris is a Telecommunications Engineer and Master of Engineering Sciences (UNRC). Director of the Energy, Science and Technology Observatory (OECYT) associated with the People and Science platform.
Betiana Vargas has a Master’s in Social Sciences with an orientation in Education (FLACSO). She is a specialist in Education and New Technologies (FLACSO). She has a degree in Psychopedagogy (UNRC). Diploma in Strategic Anticipation and Risk Management (UNDEF). PhD student in Development Studies at the Academic Unit in Development Studies (UAED) of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ), Mexico. Researcher of the Program for the Analysis of the Construction of Meaning in Digital Platforms (PAC) of the Institute of Culture and Communication (ICC) of the National University of Lanús (UNLa).
Source: Ambito
