Google is investing $1B to power the future of AI education across U.S. colleges. With hands-on tools, cloud resources, and Gemini-powered learning, students and educators gain real-world AI skills aligned with today’s workforce.
https://graycyan.ai/google-ai-training/
#AITraining #GoogleForEducation #GeminiAI #HigherEd #AISkills #FutureOfWork #WorkforceDevelopment #AIInnovation #HonestAI
Strengthening Kittson County's workforce through practical systems, not programs! Novara Consulting Group proposes to tighten existing processes for faster hiring, clearer accountability, & better resource use. No new programs, just efficient workflows! #KittsonCounty #WorkforceDevelopment #RuralMN
https://www.novaracg.com/2025/12/24/a-proposal-to-kittson-county-mns-workforce/
Heading into 2026 I hope to connect w people who share these interests: #tutor #mentor #tutormentor #youthdevelopment #workforcedevelopment #nonschoolhours #birthtowork #volunteer #complexproblems #socialcapital, #maps, #systemsthinking #leadership #clmooc #networkanalysis #conceptmaps
"Job training 💡 is a pathway 🌱 to empowerment 💪, stability 🏡, and dignity ✨.
Gaining skills 🌟 and confidence opens doors 🚪 to opportunity 🚀, independence 🌈, and community growth 🌍.
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#JobTraining #SkillsForSuccess #PathToStability #BrightFutures #CareerGrowth #WorkforceDevelopment #BuildingHope #SocialImpact #InclusiveOpportunities #StrongerTogether #EveryLifeCounts #DignityThroughWork #CommunitySupport #SupportAndCare #CommunityCare #BridgeToStability"
Green AI's promise falters not on code, but on skills. We need a workforce trained in both tech & infrastructure to realize its potential. Let's modernize training & prioritize practical skills to drive real environmental impact. #GreenAI #SkillsGap #WorkforceDevelopment
https://www.novaracg.com/2025/12/13/green-ai-does-not-fail-on-code-it-fails-on-skills/
🤝 EUVETMC and the Pact for Skills
How does EUVETMC contribute to the European upskilling initiative?
📊 For companies:
→ Standardised training documentation
→ Visibility in credentials
📊 For sectors:
→ Common ESCO competences
→ Microcredentials recognisable between companies
📊 For impact measurement:
→ Aggregated competence data
→ Progress tracking
→ ROI evidence
The Pact asks for commitment. EUVETMC documents it.
#PactForSkills #EUVETMC #Upskilling #Reskilling #WorkforceDevelopment
Satyadhar Joshi wins Silver Globee Award for pioneering AI workforce development research, creating transformative educational frameworks for K-12, veterans, and professionals #AIEducation #WorkforceDevelopment
With the transformation into an AI-driven society comes a growing need for professionals who understand its potential and its risks. That’s the vision behind GCA’s new AI+Cyber Curriculum, an initiative to teach students about AI safety and equip them to build real, deployable solutions before they graduate. Launched with a pilot cohort of ten STEM students at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, the program blends technical foundations, responsible-use frameworks, and hands-on capstone projects that mirror real-world cybersecurity challenges.
We had the opportunity to chat with Ineza Karangwa Joseph (Joe), one of the students in the pilot project who helped shape the first set of student-built tools emerging from the curriculum. In this interview, we explore what drew him to the program, what he built, challenges he faced, and how he sees AI shaping the cybersecurity landscape of the future.
#ai #artificialintelligence #workforcedevelopment #cybersecurity #cybersecuritycurriculum
A few places are still available on our new Corporate #Responsibility and #Sustainability Practitioner #Apprenticeship, which supports employers to develop professionals who can:
✔ Lead #sustainability initiatives
✔ Embed responsible business practices
✔ Drive measurable environmental and social impact
✔ Influence culture and strategy across an organisation
Get in touch if you want to know more!
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and Seoul National University have signed an MOU to jointly develop AI models for manufacturing, enhance data sharing, and foster talent through the M.AX Alliance, with participation from over 1,000 companies including Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor.
#YonhapInfomax #ManufacturingAI #SeoulNationalUniversity #MAXAlliance #DataSharing #WorkforceDevelopment #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=92150
A new four-country study shows a consistent global pattern: workers recognize AI’s long-term impact, but many struggle to turn that awareness into practical skill-building. Cultural attitudes, workplace expectations, and psychological biases all play a role - and strong learning cultures demonstrate how readiness can improve at scale.
How can organizations help teams bridge the gap between knowing and preparing?
#AIReadiness #FutureOfWork #Upskilling #DigitalSkills #AITransformation #LearningCulture #WorkforceDevelopment
Industry 4.0 is here—robots are now handling the hard labor jobs humans don't want anymore. 🤖
Entire restrooms cleaned by automation. Dangerous factory work. Physically exhausting tasks that damage human bodies over time.
This isn't about being anti-technology. It's about ensuring the transition works for everyone, not just those who own the machines.
#Industry40 #Automation #FutureOfWork #Robotics #AI #WorkforceDevelopment #TechEthics #LaborMarket #Innovation #DigitalTransformation
Enterprises harvest 74% positive AI returns while cutting training 8%—a profitability model built on consuming human capital rather than developing it. Wharton data reveals the bind: daily AI usage doubled as skill investment fell, creating capability debt beneath adoption surge.
#EnterpriseAI #WorkforceDevelopment
https://www.implicator.ai/enterprise-ai-hits-profitability-as-training-budgets-shrink/
How the Lancet Countdown illuminates a new path to climate-resilient health systems
The 2025 Lancet Countdown report has begun to acknowledge a critical, often-overlooked source of intelligence to build climate-resilient health systems: the health worker. By including testimonials from health workers alongside formal quantitative evidence, the Lancet cracks open a door, hinting at a world beyond globally standardized datasets. This is a necessary first step. However, the report’s framework for action remains a traditional, top-down model. It primarily frames the health workforce as passive recipients of knowledge—a group that must be “educated and trained” because they are “unprepared”, rather than build on existing evidence that points to health workers as leaders for climate-health resilience.
The 2025 report confirms that climate change’s assault on human health has reached alarming new levels.
Yet, within this sobering assessment lies a quiet but potentially pivotal shift.
For the first time, the Countdown’s country profiles integrate direct testimonials from frontline health workers, explicitly acknowledging their “lived experiences as valuable evidence”.
It is a crucial opening, recognizing that globally standardized data alone cannot capture the full picture or tell the story.
The Countdown’s inclusion of health worker voices in its country profiles is laudable.
It hints at bridging what philosopher Donald Schön called the divide between the “high, hard ground” of research-based theory and the “swampy lowlands” of messy, real-world practice.
Schön argued that the problems of greatest human concern often lie in that swamp, requiring practitioners to rely on experience and intuition – what he termed “knowing-in-action”.
This promising step creates new possibilities.
When the reference global report on climate change and health sees the frontline, this illuminates the path to recognize those working there as agents and leaders capable of forging solutions.
However, the report’s dominant framework still positions the health workforce primarily on the receiving end of knowledge transfer.
Indicator 2.2.5 meticulously documents gaps in climate and health education, concluding that professionals are left “unprepared”.
The resulting recommendation?
Health systems must “[e]ducat[e] and train[…] the health workforce”.
This framing, while highlighting a genuine need, implicitly casts health workers as passive vessels needing to be filled, rather than as active knowers and problem-solvers.
This perspective misses an important dimension, one vividly apparent from our direct work at The Geneva Learning Foundation with tens of thousands of health practitioners globally.
Frontline health workers are already responding – adapting vaccination schedules during heatwaves, managing cholera outbreaks after floods, counseling communities on new health risks – because they must.
Their daily observations is distinct from “lived experience”, because of their formal health education.
The patterns that emerge could form a vital, real-time early warning system, detecting subtle shifts in disease patterns or community vulnerabilities even before formal surveillance systems register them.
To dismiss this deep experiential knowledge as merely “anecdotal” is to ignore critical intelligence in a rapidly escalating crisis.
Worse, it reflects an “epistemological injustice” where practical wisdom is systematically devalued.
Here lies the crucial disconnect.
The Lancet Countdown rightly presents evidence for “community-led action,” showcasing powerful examples in Panel 6 where farmers or local groups have driven substantial environmental and health gains.
Yet, it fails to connect this potential explicitly to the health workers embedded within those very communities.
What does empowering the health workforce truly mean?
It cannot be limited to providing didactic training, such as webinar lectures about climate science.
Drawing on our research and practice, it involves concrete actions:
This approach offers concrete pathways for the academic research community.
These networks function as distributed, real-world laboratories.
They generate rich qualitative and quantitative data on context-specific climate impacts, the practicalities of implementing adaptation strategies, barriers encountered, and observed outcomes.
They offer fertile ground for implementation science, participatory action research, and validating citizen science methodologies at scale.
Rigorous study of these networks themselves – how knowledge flows, how solutions spread, how collective capacity builds – can advance our understanding of learning and adaptation in complex systems.
This vision of an empowered, networked health workforce directly supports emerging global policy.
WHO’s Global Plan of Action on Climate Change and Health, and the Belém Health Action Plan (BHAP) under development for COP30, both stress social participation, capacity building, and the integration of local knowledge.
Peer learning networks provide a practical, field-tested engine to translate these principles into action, connecting the ambitions of Belém with the realities faced by a nurse in Bangladesh, a community health worker in Kenya, or a community health doctor in India.
Furthermore, this approach may represent one of the most effective investments available.
Preliminary analysis by The Geneva Learning Foundation suggests that supporting local action health workers through networked peer learning could yield substantial health gains.
With a critical mass of one million health workers connected to learn from and support each other, the potential is to save seven million lives, at a cost lower than that of immunization.
This is not just about doing good.
It is about smart investment in resilience.
The 2025 Lancet Countdown acknowledges the view from the ground.
The challenge now is to fully integrate that perspective into research and policy, by supporting and amplifying existing, community-led local action.
We must move beyond framing health workers as recipients of knowledge or vulnerable populations needing protection, and recognize their indispensable role as knowledgeable, capable leaders.
Harnessing their “knowing-in-action” through structured, networked peer support is not merely an alternative approach.
It is essential for building the adaptive, equitable, and effective health responses this escalating climate crisis demands.
The wisdom needed to navigate the swamp often resides within it.
References
Image: The Geneva Learning Foundation Collection © 2025
#climateChangeAndHealth #climateResilience #climateResilientHealthSystems #LancetCountdown #MarinaRomanello #primaryHealthCare #workforceDevelopment
MindFlare AI unveils groundbreaking workforce development strategy to close critical AI skills gap. Transforming AI education from theory to practical application, helping organizations unlock unprecedented productivity and innovation. #AITraining #WorkforceDevelopment
Using AI at work can lead to a ‘virtuous cycle,’ with workers reporting better job satisfaction and efficiency, BCG chief AI ethics officer says
AI may be the topic du jour, but there’s still a lot of hesitancy around adopting the rapidly…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Americanworkforce #ArtificialIntelligence #Latvia #LV #MorningBrew #Workforce #workforcedevelopment
https://www.newsbeep.com/212669/
"🌟 Job training prepares people for success and resilience in the workplace.
💡 Practical skills and confidence-building opportunities empower individuals to thrive and communities to grow stronger.
🔗 https://vaccinationrewards.org/
#JobTraining #WorkforceDevelopment"
The cybersecurity talent gap keeps widening — but closing it isn’t just about hiring, it’s about training, mentoring, and retaining passion. 🎯👩💻 #CyberTalent #WorkforceDevelopment
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/20/cybersecurity-talent-gap-video/
ABC Institute partners with Uplift Training to launch VR-powered apprenticeship platform, transforming trade skills learning through immersive technology and gamified experiences #VRTraining #WorkforceDevelopment
