Title: Our digital future & world of work View from Estonia Siim Sikkut Digital Policy Adviser to Government

1. Our digital future & world of work
View from Estonia
Siim Sikkut
Digital Policy Adviser to Government

2. Intro to e-Estonia
Image source: e-estonia.com
90% of people online + internet everywhere

3. Got an idea?
Start a company in a day & manage it online hassle-free

4. 3
important decisions
no matter what the weather does!
1/3 of votes over internet

5. 52
Economic advice:
Sell your shares in Mont Blanc
311+ mln digital signatures
in Estonia

6. Next stage: zero bureaucracy

7. Introducing: e-Residency
e-residents.gov.ee | #eResidency | @e_Residents

8. Future in short: ICT everywhere
Computer everywhere
Connection everywhere
Data everywhere
Convenient interfaces
Pildi allikas: Wired Magazine

9. Ascent of digital business
Pildi allikas: alpha-solutions.dk

10. OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES

11. Artificial intelligence
Pildi allikas: IBM / slideshare.net

12. + advanced robots
Pildi allikas: robotiq.com

13. => traditional sectors face change
Pildi allikas: http://www.engineersjournal.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Domhnall_Carrol-006.jpg

14. Result: lots of today’s jobs not needed
Allikas: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf

15. Very high
Clerks
Warehouse workers
Cashiers
Assembly workers
Very high
Finance specialists
Customer support
Machine operators
Sales staff
Railroad workers
High
Technicians
Sales intermediaries
Secretaries
Cooks and waiters
General construction workers
Vehicle drivers
Simple labourers

16. Estonia: majority of jobs with high risk
Allikas: http://www.poliitika.guru/70-eesti-tookohtadest-voib-kaduda/

17. Not just loss, but change of jobs
Pildi allikas: dupress.com

18. Digital literacy inescapable
Pildi allikas: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-digital-literacies

19. Focus on higher skills
Pildi allikas: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/files/ebi/e-skills_presentation_en.pdf

20. Challenge from preschool to reskillling
Image source: Wikipedia, tiigrihype.ee, studyitin.ee
OSKA

21. Thanks!siim.sikkut@eesti.ee
Twitter: @sikkut