Greetings from the ACS Canberra Branch 2015 Annual Conference, where Chris Vein, CEO, Dome Advisory Services gave the Plenary Keynote, on "Innovating Innovation – Creating the Next Generations of Empowerment". Mr. Vein suggested that on-line services will empower individuals to make their own choices. However, I suggest those choices will be constrained by the service designer. There is the danger of a dystopiain future where citizens lives are controlled through their smart phones.
One suggestion from Mr. Vein I did agree with was about education: companies would take in new staff direct from school and train them in-house, rather than recruiting college and university graduates. However, this is not a new concept, these are called "apprentices" or "cadets". In Canberra, the Australian Public Service has ICT Apprenticeship and ICT Cadetship programs. Also these programs work with higher education institutions, not replace them. More at: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2015/09/the-myth-of-service-economy-and.html Tweets at: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ACSCanCon -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
