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e-Skills ; Measurement

e-Skills ; Measurement. Skills deployed in the workforce measure ICT practitioner skills to build ICT infrastructure which supports the knowledge economy ICT user skills to complement other competences in ways which raise productivity. e-Skills ; Measurement.

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e-Skills ; Measurement

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  1. e-Skills ; Measurement • Skills deployed in the workforce measure • ICT practitioner skills to build ICT infrastructure which supports the knowledge economy • ICT user skills to complement other competences in ways which raise productivity

  2. e-Skills ; Measurement • Skills, qualifications and competences as the supply side measure • Difficult to measure competences (or anything too technical) from labour force surveys • Occupations as the demand side measure • but in conventional frameworks such surveys make weaker predictions of skills • Changing patterns of training • new proprietary qualifications by the firms who build software and systems

  3. e-Skills ; Measurement • Software professionals • people who build the software investment • we count their activity as capital formation • STILE makes it clear that: • classifications are complex and inconsistently applied • occupations arise and change very fast • Better definition is essential • should statistical system be looking at market based classifications through ‘job boards’? • can we use IT to measure IT?

  4. e-Skills ; Measurement • e-Business or Advanced User skills • ICT plus other competences • is this where fastest growth is likely in the future? • How to capture ICT skill as part of occupation • classifications are complex and inconsistently applied • suggest that only an automated stystem can keep up • Deployment is what we want to measure • ‘skills accounting’ across industries only possible in countries with strong statistical infrastructure • another argument for ‘market based’ approach

  5. e-Skills ; Measurement • Will ECDL help EU firms to be ‘high users’?

  6. e-Skills ; Measurement • Competitive and social challenge in all three areas of the labour market • ICT professionals • Specialists for whom ICT is core • ICT enabled service providers • These are ‘globally competing’ occupations • service occupations now open to international competition • major expansion in trade, unevenly distributed • Can better labour market statistics help us understand the opportunities as well as threats?

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