Regionalism
(Automation is set to hit the heartland the hardest — again)[https://www.axios.com/automation-heartland-rural-america-manufacturing-jobs-4b39b557-95ed-4ab8-b5a4-6d96f6db0829.html], Axios
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https://a16z.com/2018/12/13/16-metrics-network-effects/
Waste Management Alaska Fishing Nets and Denmark's Plastic Net Your Problem https://www.ktoo.org/2017/09/25/unwanted-unalaska-fishing-nets-find-second-life-denmark/
Geographical displacement I future of work: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-6f3b138d-44bf-440d-b601-e52d3871455e.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosfutureofwork&stream=future
Invest in America National Skills Coalition - Immigration Policy
https://www.citb.co.uk/news-events/uk/2018/digital-technology-citb-report/#
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/522921/?__twitter_impression=true
CityLab innovators to watch by Bloomberg Cities https://link.medium.com/pEiscbYHrR
Product & Engineering Udacity experience with React Native (3rd July 2018) Airbnb’s experience with React Website for low-RAM (Google Africa) UX for SMS in Africa - MPesa M-Pesa’s backend (The Economist) Urbanism Renewal Regenerating Legacy Cities (Lincoln Institute) Opportunity Zones (USA) “Opportunity Zones: The Map Comes Into Focus” Economic Innovation Waste Management Recycling waste from abandoned homes Cleaning beaches in Lesvos, Greece Future of Work Recipe for Good Jobs Good Jobs Strategy (FT) Good Jobs Strategy at Walmart (HBR) Agriculture Conservation Future of Work Sales
Product & Engineering Udacity experience with React Native (3rd July 2018) Distinctions in styling for iOS and Android require separate integration points. Fine if styling common (icons, back button), but complexity when introducing retrospectively. Seems like the problem arises when you treat the shared code as an opportunity to disregard differences in platform. Internationalisation on Android proved a problem, with regards to different screen sizes (this isn’t a surprise). String localization required the setting up of separate repos (we should anticipate this). “[we needed] a great deal of bridging code to communicate between native and React Native components” Android/Gradle build tooling being in conflict with React Native (resource) Documentation: “As React Native has continued to evolve, the documentation and supporting community contributions have improved. It’s likely that if we were starting today, we would have been able find answers to some of our questions more easily.” “With a small team, and limited bandwidth, if it wasn’t an easy/quick fix in the React Native code it had a much lower likelihood of being addressed because of the additional development effort it might require.” Bug detection not always easy. Design: “One specific example of this is using text/margin values that are consistent with the rest of the native applications” Airbnb’s experience with React Website for low-RAM (Google Africa)
UX for SMS in Africa - MPesa
M-Pesa’s backend (The Economist) Urbanism Renewal Regenerating Legacy Cities (Lincoln Institute)
If residents’ skills increase so they can compete successfully for jobs throughout the region, their economic conditions will improve. (p.5) Legacy cities have assets, but not all assets are created equally. (p.13) Intact neighborhoods = “where the fabric and density still exist and can sustain vital communities” (p.28) Disinvested areas = population loss and property abandonment (p.28) Payton A Heins. Centre for Community Progress = is the only national nonprofit specifically dedicated to building a future in which vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties no longer exist. Documenting of different cities in tendo_db Assets Physical Traditional downtowns Stable neighbourhoods Historic buildings, areas Water bodies Transport Institutions: universities, medical centres Economic Manufacturing companies Employment bases Organisations and institutions (government, arts, civic bodies) Human Capital Non-profit Regional Local skills Cohesive ethnic communities
New localism
https://www.amazon.com/New-Localism-Cities-Thrive-Populism/dp/0815731647
Opportunity Zones (USA) Written by sbertoni@forbes.com Where investors can put taxable capital gains Investors who sell assets have 180 days to plow their taxable capital gains into an approved opportunity fund, which must hold 90% of its assets in Opportunity Zone projects. For a census tract to qualify as an O-zone, it must have a poverty rate of 20% or higher or a median household income that is less than 80% of the surrounding area. Governors are allowed to designate 25% of their states' eligible tracts as O-zones. In all, about 8,700 areas, ranging from rusty industrial towns to dusty rural hamlets, have been approved. 8,700 designated O-zones
“Opportunity Zones: The Map Comes Into Focus”
Leapfrogging in Africa (FT) In Ghana, Cocoa Link delivers information to farmers via text message, dispensing practical advice and market prices. In Kenya, Twiga Foods, an online marketplace, uses technology to disintermediate thousands of wholesalers and ensure a transparent market for farmers. Grant Brooke, Twiga’s chief executive, says the greater certainty provided by mobile-based technology can help farmers raise yields. // In Ghana, Cocoa Link delivers information to farmers via text message, dispensing practical advice and market prices. In Kenya, Twiga Foods, an online marketplace, uses technology to disintermediate thousands of wholesalers and ensure a transparent market for farmers. Grant Brooke, Twiga’s chief executive, says the greater certainty provided by mobile-based technology can help farmers raise yields.
Why Midsized Metro areas deserve our attention (Brookings)
Altogether, 68 million people—or one in four Americans—live in one of the nation’s 135 midsized metro areas. While that’s only a little more than one-third the number of people who live in large metro areas (183 million), it’s far more than the number who live in smaller metro areas with populations under 250,000 (29 million), or even the 46 million “rural” Americans who live outside metro areas altogether (Figure 2). Midsized metro areas range in population from Yakima, Wash. (250,200) to Tulsa, Okla. (990,700). Although these regions lack the size and global reach of their much larger metro counterparts, they arguably retain the requisite scale to offer a distinctive economy and quality of life to their businesses and residents. Moreover, their size may also facilitate the sort of pragmatic, cross-sector problem solving that often bedevils larger metro areas; to wit, the average midsized metro area encompasses just 2.8 U.S. counties, versus 8.2 counties in the average large metro area.
Economic Innovation
Vacancy Rates (U.S.) Entrepreneurship in Africa (30 individuals) from Quartz
Lifelong Learning Act Proposed by Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Chris Coons (D-DE) a Ref: John Arensmeyer, Founder & CEO of Small Business Majority Kermit Kaleba, Federal Policy Director of the National Skills Coalition Alastair Fitzpayne, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative Waste Management Recycling waste from abandoned homes
Cleaning beaches in Lesvos, Greece
Future of Work
Public Policy
Addressing Skill Gaps (SHRM)
Tanya Axenson, global head of human resources for Allegis Group, recommended that HR identify the core competencies needed for any job. "The question is, how much of that must someone possess when they sit in the chair on day one versus how much can be trained or taught?" she asked. "With the way jobs are changing more quickly, we're finding that more organizations are willing to hire for the core and make sure that the person has the necessary soft skills to navigate the workplace, and then train for the rest."
Assessment
Work Aptitude Questions for Army Alpha Developed in 1917 to see if recruits were eligible for officer roles
EntreComp Capacities for Life
Training West Philadelphia Skills Initiative
The youth aren’t alright” (Resolution Foundation)
What is needed however is clear and accurate information about specific career paths at a far more granular level than that provided by the National Careers Service. It will also need to be able to support firms (see Section 4) as well as individuals. While of course this should not be driven by very specific predictions of the types of jobs that will blossom, it can illustrate bigger trends and signpost established progression routes.
Training in the Construction Industry 9 (NYT) Publically funded projects required to train employees Some privately funded companies also using training schemes Wisconsin, Denver, San Francisco Government initiatives (UK)
Motivation Recipe for Good Jobs
Good Jobs Strategy (FT)
Good Jobs Strategy at Walmart (HBR)
The Good Jobs Strategy Book published by MIT professor Zeynep Ton Slack Janet Patty
Strong, skilled and trained (p.16) "Subsequent stumble" beginning of chapter 2 Not about sophsticatdd customer assistance, a coffee cup for someone in a wheelchair who has recovered from a stroke. (P.8) You can only keep customers so happy with a smile. Operations is what is comes down to. (P.22) - yes, but difference between knowledge of operations and awareness and existence P.28 - cleaning whiteboard and putting chairs back
Technical terms P.40 Phantom Stockouts P.76 non-satiation P.80 - safety stock
Constrains - reducing hours, limiting stock
Additional reading: deciding the DNA of the Toyota production system HBR (p.27)
Trench warfare (p.54)
P.149 cross training professors
Mental health training in construction
Re-branding of low skill work
£22m CITB Fund for training hubs
UK Governement Industrial Strategy (258-page PDF, 2017) Sales
Series-stage slidedeck
Early stage slidedeck
Rural
Agriculture
Sprouting Farm, West Virginia
Conservation
Agriculture's Vergelegen rehabilitation
Regions
Refugees
Impact Investors focusing on refugees (Impact Alpha) Africa The overlooked revolution (McKinsey)
Chinese mobile penetration in Africa (Bloomberg)
South Africa Private Security stats
Data sets