Below you can see two shocking statistics about (un)employment, as well as youth.
The world needs to create more than 500 million new jobs by 2020 to provide career opportunities for the currently unemployed; as well as young people who will be joining the workforce.
Young and jobless in numbers: 75 million or 12.6% of young people are unemployed worldwide; 3x more likely to be jobless; 7.5 million are not in education or training; Youth unemployment is highest in North Africa
This means that a lot of action and commitment is needed to address this ticking time bomb.
At the same time, there are many social issues that need to whatsapp number list be tackled and where social innovation is a must.
Social Innovation areas:
So, on one side there are young people looking for work and on the other side there are many issues, which need a lot of work.
Therefore, I have this ‘simple’ idea: To enable young people to work on these social innovation areas!
What is needed is that big companies as well as governments support this activity by means of investments, knowledge transfer, collaboration and mentoring.
I am convinced that creative generalists are needed to act as the catalyst for all these activities
With their broad perspectives and experiences. They samsung’s transparent phone: the future of technology in your hands are an excellent fit to connect all the stakeholders.
What do you think that is needed to get this initiative off the ground?
While I agree with “…big companies as well as governments support this activity by means
of investments, knowledge transfer, collaboration and mentoring,” time is of the essence. There is a big bomb out there and I contend the fuse has been lit.
The first step seems to be identifying which of these areas, if resolved, can have the highest positive impact. I think these are the set of basic needs (physiological per Maslow). This implies that we need to also
do something about the approach to email data development used in the world (Easterly, Sachs, something else).
This suggests the early adoption of a regime to manage this whole process which,
of course, would take us into the seemingly bottomless pit of geopolitics.