Image by Lance Ulanoff This Press Release was originally published on the EPI website on May 24, 2017. In The zombie robot argument lurches on, EPI President Lawrence Mishel and Research Director Josh Bivens challenge the popular media narrative that the pace of automation is increasing, and that it will lead to overall joblessness and …
This blog was co-authored by Jeffrey Brown and Philippe Lorenz. Read the full report: The Future of Work & the Trans-Atlantic Alliance From the United States to Europe, labor market disruption ushered in by automation and technology is increasingly recognized as a first-order policy challenge. Yet, we are marching into the future with few …
GENEVA (ILO News) – Digital disruptions are untapping the power of technology and unleashing economic value across countries and sectors. They are creating employment opportunities that increasingly rely on the digital skills available, the labour intensiveness of digital technologies, and the environmental factors that support digital entrepreneurship and industry-related supply chain development. The steady pace …
This blog was syndicated with permission from the ILO Work in Progress Blog, and was originally written by Dorothea Hoehtker. How do Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites protect you, the consumer, from disturbing content on the web? Many of us think our computers’ sophisticated algorithms perform such constant editing, but algorithms are not able …
This commentary by the World Wide Web Foundation was originally published on the SDG Knowledge Hub managed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a landmark opportunity for countries to close the digital gender divide. When UN member states committed to the SDGs, they pledged to: Achieve universal affordable …
During a recent trip to Rome I met Alessandro, a nurse at one of the eternal city’s best-known private hospitals – the Casa Di Cura Pio XI. In our chat, he described in meticulous detail how medical robots are changing his tasks and workplace. Alessandro shared that in recent years Pio XI has deployed the …