Session 3 EPR Annual Conference 2021- Digital Transformation - Learning from COVID19, looking to the future

1. The post COVID-19
future of work
Digital & Distanced

2. “3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity
jobs globally by 2021”

3. Forecasts for labour market evolution in 2020-2025
World Economic Forum “Future of Jobs Report”, 2020
“A clear acceleration in
the adoption of new
technologies among
the companies
surveyed”

4. Technologies likely to be adopted by 2025

5. The challenge of an inclusive supply

6. • CISCO’s “not for profit
education initiative helped more
than 8 million people prepare
for IT careers since 1997”
(Global Disability summit 2018)
The challenge of an inclusive supply

7. • CISCO’s “not for profit
education initiative helped more
than 8 million people prepare
for IT careers since 1997”
(Global Disability summit 2018)
• Yet only 3,000 students with
disabilities had benefited from
the academies in the past
decade.
The challenge of an inclusive supply

8. Nairobi IT Bridge Academy

9. Strategically, do we have the right model to
scale up and scale out to other curricula and
other geographies,
or should we only be working on influencing
“mainstream” academies to be more
disability inclusive?
Question for Breakout Room

10. Inclusion Works!
Labour Market Assessments
https://asksource.info/resources/labour-market-assessment-inclusion-works-kenya
https://asksource.info/resources/labour-market-assessment-kenya-2021-refresh

11. https://inclusivefutures.org/evidence-and-resources/
• Employers lack disability confidence and capability,
while disabled job seekers lack employment
confidence and readiness.
• Limited convening/capacity building functions,
which also influence and collaborate with other
supporting functions and the rules which regulate
the system.
Inclusion Works!
Theory of Action

12. Employment confidence and readiness
Making it easier – Jobseekers & Jobcreators

13. Employment & Entrepreneruship confidence and readiness
Making it easier – Jobseekers & Jobcreators

14. Making it easier – Employers
Employers’ disability confidence
https://inclusivefutures.org/disability-confident-employers-toolkit/

15. National business and disability networks
Making it easier – Supporting Functions

16. Disability Champions
Reach

17. Contact
sbrown@sightsavers.org