Digital Frontiers – Mobilising the Workforce for Good.
Description: TwentyforGood is a multi-stakeholder movement that aims to establish, execute, and scale interventions at the intersection of jobs and the Sustainable Development Goals, resulting in new jobs, new skilled and reskilled labour, and environmental and social impacts such as increased food production, access to renewable energy innovations, reduced waste, better access to health, increase in MSMEs, increase in localised manufacturing and production, and the increased momentum to the digitisation of low-income e
20% of future jobs will be dedicated to solving the world’s greatest challenges
What portion of the global workforce is dedicated to solving the world’s greatest challenges?
In a rapidly evolving world, we face a pressing reskilling crisis. By 2030, 85% of jobs will be new, and half of all employees will need reskilling. Moreover, 40% of current workers’ core skills will change within the next five years. Our youth, who are the future of our workforce, are underprepared for this reality. By 2030, 375 million youth will join the African job market alone, pushing the workforce to over a billion people, the largest in the world. Globally, 800 million youth will lack the necessary
Digital Frontiers – Mobilising the Workforce for Good.