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Bridge The Digital Gap

How to bridge the digital gap between colleges and workplace

How to bridge the digital gap between colleges and workplace – IndustrioTech

May 13, 2021

By: Dr. Amir Harandi, CEO and Founder of Artintech Inc.

When we started selling the ProcéPax™ Supply Chain Management software, we learned that many of the college graduates working in the supply chain are not ready for the digital transformation of their companies. Many of these companies are losing money and competitiveness simply because their systems are old, slow, and inefficient. So the question was how to help the modernization of the industry, especially when it comes to small and medium-sized companies. The real gap was in the curriculum of schools. Students learn operations and supply chain theories, but they do not have hands-on experience working with state-of-the-art supply chain software systems.

So at Artintech, we designed the SCMSA™ Certificate program with the help of our experts to bridge this gap. Now, the graduates of this short and straightforward program can easily relate to IT systems, identify the benefits of using these systems, and have enough confidence to suggest implementing and using these IT systems. It means now they can reduce the cost of operations, increase the speed and accuracy of the work, and enhance the transparency and clarity of the processes.

Gerade die Digitalisierung muss der Staat mit einer möglichst breiten Partizipation aller gesellschaftlichen Gruppen am wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung begleiten. 

Per ridurre il “Digital Gap” le aziende che offrono connettività devono saper innovare

E’ ormai evidente a tutti che nella società del terzo millennio non si può fare a meno di internet. Tutto gira intorno a questo sistema di comunicazione inventato per motivi militari decenni or sono ma che è entrato prepotentemente nella vita quotidiana di tutti, persone o aziende che siano. Ma al giorno d’oggi per poter usare al meglio internet, sfruttarne tutte le potenzialità, gestire il…

The FCC updated its broadband benchmark speeds to 25 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloads and 3 Mbps for uploads.

Who lacks access

17 percent of all Americans (55 million people) 

53 percent of rural Americans (22 million people)

only 8 percent of urban Americans 

 Additional Findings

Rural America continues to be underserved at all speeds: 20 percent lack access even to service at 4 Mbps/1 Mbps, down only 1 percent from 2011, and 31 percent lack access to 10 Mbps/1 Mbps, down only 4 percent from 2011. 

 63 percent of Americans living on Tribal lands (2.5 million people) lack access to 25 Mbps/3 Mbps broadband 

 85 percent living in rural areas of Tribal lands (1.7 million people) lack access. 

63 percent of Americans living in U.S. territories (2.6 million people) lack access to 25 Mbps/3 Mbps broadband. 

 79 percent of those living in rural territorial areas (880,000 people) lack access.

Overall, the gap in availability of broadband at 25/3 closed by only 3 percentage points last year, from 20% lacking access in 2012 to 17% in 2013

Overall, the broadband availability gap closed by only 3 percent last year

Americans living in rural and urban areas adopt broadband at similar rates where 25 Mbps/ 3 Mbps service is available, 28 percent in rural areas and 30 percent in urban areas.

Facebook launched a new app last week, but it’s only available in Zambia where only about 11 percent of the population uses the Internet. The app, Internet.org, is an effort to connect “every one of us. Everywhere,” its slogan touts.

And Facebook isn’t alone. It joins Google’s Project Loon, which for the past year has been launching 200-foot, lighter-than-air helium balloons 12 miles above the earth to create a network that provides the Internet in remote areas of Brazil and New Zealand.

These efforts are part of a larger trend by tech giants to bring the Internet to developing parts of the world. For every person in the world who can get on the Internet two cannot. Worldwide, 34 percent of people have access to the Internet, and in countries like Zambia, Internet usage penetrates even less of the population, according to data from Internet World Stats.

Facebook’s report also says they believe by giving people access to health care information, “we could reduce child mortality by 7 percent and save the lives of 2.5 million people,” a Facebook spokesperson said in an email.

But some say it isn’t so simple, and scholars are skeptical of claims, like Google’s and Facebook’s, that technology will reduce poverty.

It’s not enough to just provide the Internet, Venkatesh said, and even with the success he has seen in providing the Internet to these remote villages, he agrees with Toyama that technology alone cannot alleviate poverty.