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Conclusions and Actions
A strong digitally focussed workforce could:
✓ Lessen the dependence on the labour
market, use technology in conjunction with
job roles to make the jobs more efficient.
✓ Make exciting local roles that will appeal to
the digital generation of workers, mitigate
the talent drain.
✓ Help with training and learning resources so
the right skills can be delivered easily and
effectively
✓ Create problem solvers who can create
solutions via STEM learning.
✓ Allow collaboration and contact with experts
globally
✓ Censors, drones, monitoring equipment etc
all could become automated digital systems.
✓ Ensure provision of digital learning resource
tools to bridge the gap in digital educator
shortages. Allow digital to teach digital
✓ Reduce the gender gap in digital aspirations,
very few females are attracted to the sector
Digital
Skill Requirements
✓ Show young people that digital careers are
for everyone
✓ Embed digital skills in the development
programmes in all parts of the county
✓ Champion the development of excellence in
advanced digital skills
What's required?
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Block Chain
• Big Data / Data Analytics
• Cloud Computing
• Internet of Things (IOT)
• Additive manufacturing and 3D printing
• Automation
• Virtual and Augmented reality
• Compound Semiconductors
• 5G
• STEM and Critical Thinking
Disconnected-Report-final.pdf (worldskillsuk.org)
Digital 2030: strategic framework | GOV.WALES
Delivering Economic Transformation for a Better Future of Work (gov.wales)
Creative Industries
Evidence suggests that more younger people
would like a career within the creative industries,
yet it is still only a small part of the economy.
However, Neath Port Talbot has many new and
growing businesses in this sector and with this
sector becoming more digitally focussed could
engage a stronger female representation to the
digital sector.
Creative education can serve many purposes, from
confidence building to self-expression through to
generating wider appeal in digital processes,
therefore young adults need to be continually
encouraged as many skills they will learn are core
transferable and the new creative companies
moving to the region will also have a wider talent
pool to choose from.
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