Jacques Bus

See below on the change of date. We will soon announce a new date

Multiple studies performed during 2017 and monitored by the Digital Enlightenment Forum show clearly that the rapid transformations taking place in the new digital ecosystem have a strong and measurable collateral effect on the job market demand and the difficulty of existing educational systems to supply it with suitably skilled human resources. See for more details attachment below.

Earlier Digital Enlightenment debates have recommended an approach be developed to  combine flexible and hybrid learning mini- courses, self-regulated learning, mentoring and coaching, all aimed at clearly measurable acquisition of skills that are readily recognizable by potential employers.

A palette of new-generation e-learning tools, existing or to be developed, will need to be effectively integrated into such approach.

We believe that it is now timely to take up the challenge and bring together knowledgeable people who can collectively and via the trademark DigEnlight interaction shed as much light as possible on how fast and vast this education vs employment disruption is and provide insights as well as concrete recommendations.

 To this end Digital Enlightenment Forum will contribute by organising a one-day workshop on May, 31 2018 in Brussels under the title: “Skills for Jobs in the Digital Era”.

We expect participants to be actively engaged in addressing the challenge of education and skills provision for the new employment ecosystem. They will come from policy, educational institutions and industry and be ready and open for multi-disciplinary debate.

Existing and/or under development e-learning and “up-training” tools will be showcased.

The workshop aims at producing recommendations for pertinent EU policy, including for the new 2021-2028 Research Framework Programme. It also strives to enable participants to interact and take new ideas back with them to work out in their own environments or in future partnerships and collaborations.

 The draft programme is:

            Opening Policy Keynote

  Followed by three panel discussions:

1. New Jobs, New Skills: Status and Prospects
2. Up- and re-skilling – Innovative Approaches
3. New Generation e-Learning Tools for Career Development – Trials and Showcases

More details can be found in the documents given below.

For free registration use the right hand column form or send an email to info@digitalenlightenment.org...

The Commission is setting up a group on artificial intelligence to gather expert input and rally a broad alliance of diverse stakeholders.

See discussion and full document in distributed Ledger space HERE.

Today, blockchain is making its way in our daily life. Why not in healthcare? Healthcare providers are required to use electronic medical records buts sharing and re-using data is still a major issue. The blockchain technology has the ability to solve this problem while still keeping the data safe and secure. Data sharing can be based on so called smart contracts. Not only hospitals or doctors will benefit from these blockchain based applications. Companies in the health sector or researchers would be able to have a lot more data available from a wider audience an be able to run large-scale continuous longitudinal studies. See full document in Library of this space.