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Digital Literacy: How to Build a Globally Competitive Workforce in Your City
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This session, hosted by Mayor Manuel A. Diaz and sponsored by Microsoft, offered a "living room style" discussion of digital literacy and workforce readiness and competitiveness.
An international audience of Mayors, CIOs and workforce readiness professionals who are all challenged by high dropout rates, a workforce in need of digital literacy skills, and a deficient school-to-work pipeline participated in a moderated discussion among four mayors whose cities have implemented highly-focused Digital Inclusion strategies. The mayors included Manny Diaz, City of Miami; Greg Nickels, City of Seattle; Kathryn Talylor, Mayor of Tulsa; and Fernando Margain Berlanga, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico.
Their insights into successful digital literacy, workforce enhancement, and micro business/small business stimulus programs helped workshop participants develop their own practical approaches to closing the digital divide.
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| Innovating for inclusion: A Digital Inclusion Guide for those leading the way
Discover in this guide how the rapidly evolving debate about what to do when undertaking a Digital Inclusion initiative is advancing and how you can create an overarching strategic framework for how to do it.
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