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Upskill of the Workforce WEF

Upskill of the Workforce

A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question “How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?”Product Owners and Scrum Masters are specifically named on the WEF list of Jobs of Tomorrow. All the other skills that Development Teams need in the digital…
bubmag
February 12, 2020
Is Davos becoming more effective than the UN at solving global issues? It looks like it ǀ View WEF

Is Davos becoming more effective than the UN at solving global issues? It looks like it ǀ View

The year 2020 marks two important anniversaries. It has been 75 years since the establishment of the United Nations (UN) by the victorious powers of World War II. And it has been 50 years since the establishment of the World Economic Forum (WEF) by Professor Klaus Schwab.One might say that…
bubmag
February 4, 2020
Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing WEF

Corporate Counter-Mobilization: Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ Is Nothing but Fairwashing

Yves here. One bit of good news with Uber and its allies’ launch of an empty charter to pretend to deal with the job conditions of gig workers is it appears to have gotten little notice in the US. Perhaps the fact that it was launched at Davos was more…
bubmag
February 4, 2020
My Reflections On Davos 2020 WEF

My Reflections On Davos 2020

Ravin Jesuthasan For the last couple of years, the issues of climate change and the future of work have been front and center on the Davos agenda. So was 2020 just more of the same? Not quite. In the weeks leading up to Davos, the WEF outlined an ambitious agenda…
bubmag
January 28, 2020