Skills Summit
The aim of this summit was to get all the stakeholders around the table to:
· Get an understanding of how the world economic crisis will affect the local IT markets.
· Get an understanding of what the skills crisis is or are its practitioners filling the gaps through learning initiatives?
· Define and identify where the skills shortage is (specific areas) - building a skills capacity for the future especially in light of potential job losses and the drying up of foreign investment in South Africa.
· Explore the mismatch between what learners are being taught in academic institutes and what the real life requirements of business are.
· Commit to develop a strategy as a united ICT sector, that will minimize potential job losses and build skills capacity.
JCSE and IT Web launched the 2009 Skills survey.
Skills development is the key to promote employability and economic growth.