Our digital future & world of work

View from Estonia

Siim Sikkut Digital Policy Adviser to Government

Intro to e-Estonia

Image source: e-estonia.com

90% of people online + internet everywhere

Got an idea? Start a company in a day & manage it online hassle-free

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important decisions no matter what the weather does! 1/3 of votes over internet

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Economic advice: Sell your shares in Mont Blanc 311+ mln digital signatures in Estonia

Next stage: zero bureaucracy

Introducing: e-Residency

e-residents.gov.ee | #eResidency | @e_Residents

Future in short: ICT everywhere

Computer everywhere

Connection everywhere

Data everywhere

Convenient interfaces

Pildi allikas: Wired Magazine

Ascent of digital business

Pildi allikas: alpha-solutions.dk

OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES

Artificial intelligence

Pildi allikas: IBM / slideshare.net

+ advanced robots

Pildi allikas: robotiq.com

=> traditional sectors face change

Pildi allikas: http://www.engineersjournal.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Domhnall_Carrol-006.jpg

Result: lots of today’s jobs not needed

Allikas: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf

Very high

Clerks Warehouse workers

Cashiers Assembly workers

Very high

Finance specialists Customer support Machine operators

Sales staff Railroad workers

High

Technicians Sales intermediaries

Secretaries Cooks and waiters

General construction workers Vehicle drivers

Simple labourers

Estonia: majority of jobs with high risk

Allikas: http://www.poliitika.guru/70-eesti-tookohtadest-voib-kaduda/

Not just loss, but change of jobs

Pildi allikas: dupress.com

Digital literacy inescapable

Pildi allikas: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies

Focus on higher skills

Pildi allikas: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/files/ebi/e-skills_presentation_en.pdf

Challenge from preschool to reskillling

Image source: Wikipedia, tiigrihype.ee, studyitin.ee

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Thanks! siim.sikkut@eesti.ee Twitter: @sikkut