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The primary difference between a computer science approach and the Informatics approach taken in this book is a greater focus on using Python to solve data analysis problems common in the world of Informatics. The Python 2 version of the book is still available.
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For example, in West Africa and Kenya, blockchain has enabled efficient verification of property records and transactions, and expanded access to credit in some previously informal sectors of the economy. There are also immense opportunities for job creation in Africa. Their consequences can cascade: Increased financial inclusion contributes to greater capital accumulation and investment, hence potential for employment creation.
Africa has yet to harness the full potential of its agricultural sector, and 4IR technologies provide an opportunity to do so. Farming alone accounts for 60 percent of total employment in sub-Saharan Africa, and the food system is projected to add more jobs than the rest of the economy between and Furthermore, as incomes rise across the continent, growing consumer demand for food and beverages will coincide with business-to-business growth in agro-processing.
Ghana-based companies Farmerline and Agrocenta offer farmers mobile and web technology for agricultural advice, weather information, and financial tips.
Zenvus, a Nigerian startup, measures and analyzes soil data to help farmers apply the right fertilizer and optimally irrigate farms. African countries face numerous health challenges exacerbated by climate change, limited physical infrastructure, and a lack of qualified professionals.
Mobile technology has become a platform for improving medical data and service delivery: About 27, public health workers in Uganda use a mobile system called mTrac to report medicine stocks. The SMS for Life program, a public-private partnership, reduces medicine shortages in primary health care facilities by using mobile phones to track and manage stocks levels of malaria treatments and other essential drugs. Technology has also improved disaster response: During the West African Ebola outbreak in , WhatsApp became an easy method of dispersing information, checking symptoms, and communicating under quarantine.
Illness detection and pharmaceutical production have most immediately benefited from digitization. AI is being slowly implemented in Ethiopia to help medical professionals correctly diagnose cervical cancer and other abnormalities.
Clearly, the 4IR presents significant opportunities as well as challenges for Africa. The key issue for policymakers is how to position their economies to benefit from the 4IR while managing the challenges that it presents.
Below are three strategies that leaders should prioritize. Since creating jobs for the burgeoning youth population is a priority in most African countries, many governments are reluctant to support technologies that threaten existing jobs.
Some of the current technologies tend to replace low-skilled workers—of which Africa has an abundance—with higher-skilled workers, constraining participation in the 4IR to economies with relevant skills. As innovation is at the heart of the 4IR, reinforcing state and institutional capacity to drive and support innovation and create an enabling business environment is essential for success.
The Socio-Evolutionary Theory is based on the assumption that societies gradually change from simple beginnings into even more complex forms Sociology Guide. Com, Workers already displaced by automation, such as those on assembly lines, could also feel the impact of the latest technology, as robots which are able to move around — so-called cobots — are able to perform more intricate tasks Treanor, Fundamentals Drivers of Change The most significant driver of change, across all industries, is the changing nature of work itself.
Drivers of change will also have a very disparate impact within the public sector. The model changes created by these drivers will, in turn, have specific and different consequences for employment and skills needs in government. Curran offers that government must actively, deliberately, and decisively pursue emerging technology to uncover the high potentials that could reposition its business for the Fourth Industrial Age.
A major goal of the report is to analyse the impact of key drivers of change and provide specific information on the relative magnitude of these expected changes by industry and geography, and the expected time horizon for their impact to be felt on job functions, employment levels and skills.
Drivers of Employment However, by far the biggest expected drivers of employment creation are demographic and socio-economic in nature; in particular, the opportunities offered by young demographics and rising middle classes such as South Africa in emerging markets and the rising economic power and aspirations of women. At country level, expectations of the nature of upcoming disruptions are shaped by the demographic, economic and technological development of the country.
Overall, changing and flexible work is seen as the most significant driver of change in advanced economies, whereas the rising middle class takes this role in emerging markets TRALAC, Digitisation of the Public Service The South African government is the largest employer with approximately 2. The use of digital communications has changed society in ways that are not yet fully understood. Dilmegani, et al and Newton have discovered that more than governments around the world are doing their best to meet citizen demand and capture benefits with online services.
The online services that have been installed seem to have benefits for the residents of those countries, including for those in rural areas who find access more challenging. It is common knowledge that digitisation is the logical next step for the public sector, however Cassoojee identifies a prominent hurdle in the digitisation of public sector functions - how to implement upgraded systems that deliver services more efficiently?
The public sector has little choice but to improve the way it operates online. To do so, it needs to take their digital transformations deeper, beyond the provision of online services through e- government portals, into the broader business of government itself. That means looking for opportunities to improve productivity, collaboration, scale, process efficiency, and innovation with Dilmegani, et al. And increasing evidence shows that countries effectively harnessing the use of technology are more successful at passing on economic benefits to their citizens.
State of the Nation - Broadband In presenting the State of the Nation address, President Jacob Zuma stated that the broadband rollout to 5 government facilities in eight district municipalities will be fast- tracked over the next three years, at a cost of about Rmillion. The broadband rollout is one of the interventions announced last year in the nine-point plan designed to kick-start the economy IT-Online, d.
Zuma further iterated that government has invested Rbillion in Eskom and this has stabilised the electricity supply which will promote the use of technology. South Africa can choose to jump on board or not, or co- create the future, or let it happen around us Newton-King, The South African government has many reasons to make information easy to find online and at low or no cost by investing in a comprehensive public-sector digital transformation.
Shared services, greater collaboration and integration, improved fraud management, and productivity enhancements enable system-wide efficiencies. Government needs to tackle the factors that make many e-government efforts fall short of their promise Dilmegani, et al. Despite a very unfavourable economic backdrop, the South African economy has been very resilient Fischer, Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies and the Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel acknowledge that although South Africa had a lot going for it, the country was going to have to come to terms with the Fourth Industrial Revolution in order to take its rightful place in the future.
Minister Patel further observed that "the Fourth Industrial Revolution is challenging our world on how we do things. We now have an opportunity to bring health care services to the people, especially rural communities using the internet.
It also presents us with an opportunity for children to access education in a modernised way. The National Planning Commission identified the high domestic cost of broadband internet connectivity as a major hindrance. All South Africans should be able to acquire and use knowledge effectively. Governments have few direct rivals.
So the vexing question to ask - Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?
While the National Development Plan NDP remains the blueprint for dealing with economic growth, the impact and speed of disruptive technologies will force a rethink of how to implement the NDP. It will have to look at the use of technology and innovation to deal with inequality, poverty and joblessness Kemp, a.
Concurrently, White et al. Venter argues that one of the biggest problems facing South Africa is that its leaders, are stuck in a protectionist mode. However, President Jacob Zuma believes that the global economic crisis and major advances in technology should be tackled head-on by a cohesive African response, driven by the African Union. The AU has gravitated towards looking at the interests of the continent collectively, which was not the case 20 years ago, due to pressure from colonialists.
His answer is equally forthright - The short answer is no! The economy can be expected to create new jobs at a commensurate rate at which it extinguishes existing jobs. There are reasons to believe that job creation will outpace job destruction.
Concerns about offering a poorer service to disadvantaged groups have held back moves towards digitisation in many public service organisations, particularly in rural areas. Effective democratic governance requires that citizens be able to identify and hold accountable those who make decisions that produce undesired outcomes see, among many, McGraw, ; Peffley, ; Powell and Whitten, ; Rudolph, and Walsh Mahlakoana considers that South Africa would need to move fast to advance its technological might if it wanted to remain at a player in the global economy.
The impact of such a shake-up would however only be limited to how well the public service was prepared for the future. The key is a strategic approach to emerging technology. Skills The challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution "is the convergence of technology and creativity of people. We need young population that is skilled, knowledgeable to use telecommunication and medical technology for the betterment of the people.
Our networks for telecommunications should be robust enough to support the implementation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution".
The world is significantly under-producing technological innovation that is needed to tackle global challenges, including boosting productivity, improving health, and protecting the environment IT-Online, a.
Statisticians predict the technology field will expand exponentially because of the demand for state of the art technology products Mayhew, So how do we close this gap? We need to invest in human capital by not only hiring the best, but also empowering our workforce, particularly women and those in local markets, to rise to senior leadership levels.
One of the major barriers to change identified by chief human resource officers is the lack of specificity on the types of disruptive change under way. This will entail government taking more responsibility for upskilling, reskilling and collaborating rather than competing on talent TRALAC, Sera offers that rigged and inflated contracts, absenteeism, pension scams and unnecessary consultancy were among the most common ways in which public money was frittered away last year.
When citizens become apathetic to gross corruption and think they can do nothing to protest it, then it will continue. Technology could become a game-changing force where trust is at a premium, and where people need protection from identity theft, including the public sector managing public records and elections. A voting machine records votes in a frontier country known for past political corruption.
Though there is no central government repository, each vote is tagged to an individual with no duplication Plansky, et al. The individual identities remain anonymous, and the results of the election are undisputed. The issue of a more efficient regulatory compliance of a central, immutable ledger of transactions would allow auditors and regulators to rapidly monitor the flow of financial data, avoiding after-the-fact verification.
Transactions are tracked and statistics are kept, so that governments are aware of the movement of capital across their borders, and activity is monitored for patterns that might indicate money laundering. The system is presumed immune to tampering, fraud, or political control because every core transaction is processed just once and Swain contemplates that the only way to accelerate change was for public bodies to have a concrete and visible plan of what they intended to do, audited by an outside body, to make them accountable for any failure to achieve it.
The greatest disruption, however, could be experienced by workers who have so far felt immune to robotic competition, namely those in middle-skill professions. Additionally, one may argue that bridging the gap between the poor and rich countries will never make any sense if all the obstacles Western and rich countries imposed on poor country in trade are not pulled down.
So, too, there must be efforts and plans to address the colonial legacy. Education Over the past few years, Schwulst perceives that there has been a rise of innovation hubs aimed at supporting technological innovation and incubating bold new ideas. Senior public sector technology workers are leaving agencies en masse, and younger employees with new skills are taking their places. This changing landscape is forcing technology leaders to rethink their approach to talent management today and for the future.
Public sector leaders who are moving forward with transformative technologies are also turning their attention to the workforce that will be expected to deliver value from these investments White, et al. With robots continuing to revolutionise workplaces, the Oxford Martin School study predicts that almost half of all jobs will be automated in the next two decades.
Rossi reflects that the education system has proven unequal to the task of identifying individual talent and ability to require new knowledge that enables individuals to become valued and valuable assets moving forward.
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