Using Technology Foresights for Identifying Future Skills Needs: SKOLKOVO-ILO Global Workshop Proceedings, ‘Skills Technology Foresight Tool: Results of the Group Discussions’

Geneva : International Labour Office, 2014.

Afanasyev M., Luksha P., Sudakov D.

Editor-in-chief: O. Strietska-Ilina, P. Luksha

The present publication is the result of discussions at an international expert workshop “Using Technology Foresights for Identifying Future Skills Needs”. The workshop was organized in Russia in July 2013 and brought together leading skills anticipation and high-level national technology foresight experts from Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Romania, Russia and Switzerland. Throughout the workshop national and regional cases of skills anticipation using technology foresight have been presented; participants also discussed a potential convergence of disciplines and an integrated new approach to skills technology foresight. This fruitful discussion has become instrumental for further work on pioneering the method of identifying future skills needs based on a technology foresight.

The method is pending implementation in two pilot countries in selected sectors with particular attention to building policy recommendations applicable to the contexts of developing countries. The results are expected to be of substantial value for governments, sectoral bodies, employers and workers organisations, in their efforts to bridge the gap between the skills demand and supply, which arises of technological change.

Keywords: Skills Technology Foresight, Strategic Foresight, Skills Anticipation