PROPOSAL - UPDATED INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT STUDY

The Davos Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) brings together great specialists to discuss the Global Agenda and provides the opportunity to listen to current and future trends. In one of the forums that took place at the 2019 Davos meeting, economic issues related to work, education, technological advances and training were discussed. One of the highlights was the discussion about the type of skills that will be needed to face the changes that globalization and the Industrial Revolution 4.0 are generating in the workplace, and precisely this ADH Program is woven around the new skills required to keep me useful and current in the emerging work scenario. Today, with the reforms that society is facing for the global uncertainty generated by the sanitary, economic and social crises, the agenda initially developed by Japan to promote a new society that rescues the human and ecological value of new developments, makes vital the skills learned during the HDA program.

The present technologies have great potential to continue to connect billions of more people to the web, drastically improve the efficiency of business and organizations and help regenerate the natural environment through better asset management, potentially even undoing all the damage previous industrial revolutions have caused.

Social reform (innovation) in Society 5.0 aim a forward-looking society that breaks down the existing sense of stagnation, a society whose members have mutual respect for each other, transcending the generations, and a society in which each and every person can lead an active and enjoyable life.

The best use of our efforts and resources in this regard is to invest them in their own adaptation to the scenario of the new personal, work and business world that is emerging from technological advances and social reforms. A great professional profile is not only measured by its technical skills and theoretical knowledge, soft skills or soft skills are also important, which have to do with personality, relationships with others and the use of knowledge and information.

 

Why to Prepare for Accelerated Technological and Social Changes?

As automation increases, computers and machines will replace workers across a vast spectrum of industries, from drivers to accountants and estate agents to insurance agents. By one estimate, as many as 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk from automation.

Many experts suggest that the fourth industrial revolution will benefit the rich much more than the poor, especially as low-skill, low-wage jobs disappear in favor of automation.

But this isn’t new.  Historically, industrial revolutions have always begun with greater inequality followed by periods of political and institutional change.  The industrial revolution that began at the beginning of the 19th century originally led to a huge polarization of wealth and power, before being followed by nearly 100 years of change including the spread of democracy, trade unions, progressive taxation and the development of social safety nets.

It seems a safe bet to say, then, that our current political, business and social structures may not be ready or capable of absorbing all the changes a fourth industrial revolution would bring, and that major changes to the very structure of our society maybe inevitable.