The document discusses challenges, opportunities, and solutions related to youth unemployment. It notes that rapid global changes are creating new employment realities, including shifting demographics, emerging markets providing high-end talent, and capital migrating to high-growth regions. Technological innovations are also disrupting industries and polarizing services employment. The document proposes solutions like digital entrepreneurialism through micro-multinationals, multi-stakeholder problem-solving networks, and new models of education and skills training to unleash human capital and tap into global knowledge and ingenuity.

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Tackling Youth Unemployment:
Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions
Anthony D. Williams
President
Centre for Digital Entrepreneurship &
Economic Performance

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1. Challenges
2. Opportunities
3. Solutions

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Rapid global change creates tough new employment realities

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Less developed countriesMore developed countries
Demographics are shifting the center of economic gravity

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Emerging markets are now major sources of high-end talent

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Capital is migrating to high-growth regions

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The world’s fastest growing companies you haven’t heard of

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Not just a recession – a turning point in history

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Drowning in unsustainable debt

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The jobless decade and a generation on the brink

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World-changing technologies foster disruption & innovation

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Foxconn’s one million robots

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Flextronics builds solar panels with 1/10th the labour

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Amazon’s delivery drones and Google’s self-driving cars

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Automated warehouses, driverless forklifts, self checkouts

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A secular shift in employment
Brawn Brains

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The polarization of services employment

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Artificial intelligence: beware white collar workers

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Wall St. vs. Warren: A.I. that analyzes financial markets

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CNN vs. Narrative Science: A.I. that writes and reports the news

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House vs. Watson: A.I. that diagnoses patient conditions

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A.I. that can deliver a TED talk . . . and get a standing ovation

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Uncertain implications for labour markets and employment

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1. Challenges
2. Opportunities
3. Solutions

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Digital entrepreneurialism and micro-multinationals

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Raise financing from the crowd

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Access digital utilities from the cloud

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Source talent from around the world

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Retail products globally with social marketing & e-commerce

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Invent and manufacture anything using 3D printing

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Invent and manufacture anything using 3D printing

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Micro-multinationals in every industry

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Market products and services to a global audience

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Offer your skills to a world of talent-hungry companies

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The project economy

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1. Challenges
2. Opportunities
3. Solutions

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Multi-stakeholder, cross-disciplinary networks
Job seekers Employers
Government
NGOs and community
organizations
Educators
Problem-solving
networks

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New models of service delivery
Employer Intermediaries Job Seekers
Employers

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P-tech is rethinking high school and college curriculums

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Udacity is training a massive population of self-learners

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Decoded offers digital enlightenment in one day

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Young Invincibles advocates for changes in legislation

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Digital Opportunity Trust creates an ecosystem for digital success

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Samasource provides digital work for disadvantaged youth

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Startup Corps helps young people start a business

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Youth Trade helps young entrepreneurs grow their business

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WeLocalize reduces the cost and risk of going global

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A global union of freelancers…working toward shared benefits

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Unleashing the power of human capital

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Tapping into the knowledge & ingenuity of the world

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Comments & Questions:
awilliams@deepcentre.com
@adwill
Anthony D. Williams
President & Co-founder
Centre for Digital Entrepreneurship &
Economic Performance