Open AccessBook
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The response to this technological revolution must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society, as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We do not yet know just how it will unfold, but one thing is clear: the response to it must be integrated and comprehensive, involving all stakeholders of the global polity, from the public and private sectors to academia and civil society.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Exploring the Significance of Some Cultural and Religious Factors in Domestic Violence among Muslim Immigrant Australians
TL;DR: The authors explored the issue of domestic violence against Australian Muslim immigrant women and found that Islamicallydiscordant patriarchal interpretations of the Quran and Sunnah employed by influential late classical scholars based in eastern Muslim lands has affected tafsir and legal rulings, especially of non-Maliki madhhabs.
Journal ArticleDOI
Industrial revolution 4.0: and the impact on human resources
TL;DR: In this paper, a literature study was conducted to look at the data quality approach regarding how the emergence of Industry 4.0 is related to the development of industrial engineering science, what challenges are faced and how the government should direct the development process of industry 5.0.
Journal ArticleDOI
Zoning in on urban manufacturing: industry location and change among low-tech, high-touch industries in Melbourne, Australia
Carl Grodach,Declan Martin +1 more
TL;DR: The focus of policy attention to manufacturing revolves around a narrative of advanced, innovation-driven production as discussed by the authors, often overlooked are low-tech, high-touch manufacturing, which engage in sp...
Journal ArticleDOI
Platform modelling and scheduling game with multiple intelligent cloud-computing pools for big data
TL;DR: By using multi-dimensional RDRS models, this work can prove the myopic game-theoretic policy to be an asymptotic Pareto minimal-dual-cost Nash equilibrium one globally over the whole time horizon to a randomly evolving dynamic game problem.
Journal ArticleDOI
Apprenticeships and ‘future work’: are we ready?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the readiness of apprenticeship systems to cope with five major developments affecting the future of work and find that adaptations of systems and processes were being undertaken at company level and by stakeholders such as trade union or employer peak bodies.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
An analysis of the library and information science (LIS) job market in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore and discuss the library and information science (LIS) job market in South Africa through an analytical literature review and the content analysis of recent longitudinal newspaper scanning (2009 - 2012) of LIS job advertisements in the country.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Information Technology Influence on LIS Job Descriptions in South Africa
TL;DR: The results revealed that IT has a significant influence on the LIS job market in South Africa, which has led to LIS jobs requiring basic computer literacy, and advanced IT knowledge and skills.
Journal Article
A Competency Index for Research Librarians in Kenya
TL;DR: In this paper, the essential skills, attitudes and personality traits that research librarians in Kenya should possess were investigated through documentary analysis, interviews, social network analysis and focus group discussions.