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SRM, AP to host Amaravati’s first-ever National Hackathonedit
HackSRM is conceived by alumni of prominent tech institutes and members of student chapters like the QS Silver Awardee, Next Tech Lab; Ennovab (supported by alumni of SCET, UC Berkeley); and the Student Chapters of ACM and IEEE among others.
IEEEMoRTH taking initiative for Engineers Bill: IEI presidentedit
The Institution of Engineers India (IEI) president, T M Gunaraja Wednesday said the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways was taking the initiative to place Engineers Bill in Parliament. He said the draft bill will be out soon.
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Industry News: Information and Communications
25% digital workers to use virtual employee assistants by 2021edit
According to a report by Gartner, Inc, the contact centre was the pilot and testing ground for many adopters of virtual assistants (VAs), but with the democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) and the development of accurate and clever conversational user interfaces (UIs), different types of VA have arisen: virtual personal assistants (VPAs), virtual customer assistants (VCAs) and virtual employee assistants (VEAs).
Virtual Employee AssistantsAutomation Actually Creates More Jobs, at Least in the Beginningedit
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AutomationJobsIndustry News: Future of Mobility
Self-driving cars get smarter: They can recognise and predict pedestrian movementsedit
Scientists are using humans’ gait, body symmetry and foot placement to teach self-driving cars to recognise and predict pedestrian movements with greater precision than current technologies.
smart mobilityHeavy industries ministry says FAME-II not yet finalised, but focus on public transport, R&D creationedit
The rollout of electric vehicles’ subsidy scheme, FAME-II, is unlikely to happen by February, as the Department of Heavy Industries (DHI) informed the Parliament that the second phase of the scheme is “yet to be finalised”.
FAME II PolicyBS-VI To Hurt Sales Of Diesel Cars, Boost Electric Vehicles – M&Medit
The introduction of BS-VI fuel standard a year from now is expected to make small diesel engines too expensive to be of practical use and push the market for smaller vehicles towards petrol, CNG and electric vehicles, automaker Mahindra & Mahindra said.
Electric VehiclesIndustry News: Future of Work
Updrading skills must to help people adapt to future of work: OECDedit
The most recent OECD analysis suggests that while only about one in seven jobs is at risk of full automation, another 30 per cent will likely be overhauled. However, people in jobs most at risk also do less training (40 per cent) than workers with jobs at low risk (59 per cent).
Future of WorkMoving towards Human + Robot workplacesedit
It’s the era of the digital workforce and it is transforming the world of work. Last year, consulting firm Deloitte conducted a global survey on robotic process automation (RPA), which it defines as the automation of rules-based processes with software (and not to be mistaken for walking, talking bots) and found that the value of this work in organisations had grown a lot.
Industry News: Education
Education is not just an instrument for employmentedit
More than 96% of the parents said education was important for both boys and girls. Over 30% gave reasons related to employability as the main usefulness of education. However, over 25% of the parents had mainly reasons that conveyed the importance of education for broader social objectives other than employment.
EducationIndustry News: Skilling
Firms are hiring on a temporary basis even for highly specialised jobsedit
Temping, once common among blue collar workers, is becoming common for highly specialised white collar roles like data scientists, business analysts, cloud computing engineers and fields of machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), digital marketing, etc.
Nations must boost adult training in face of automation: OECDedit
Developed countries need to urgently boost adult training and education programmes to deal with future mass job upheaval brought on by automation, the OECD said Wednesday. The OECDs latest analysis found that one in seven jobs are at risk of being fully automated while another 30 percent would likely be overhauled.
Adult Training‘PPP is skilling India, not killing education’edit
Public-private partnership (PPP) in the education sector is the need of the hour in India, opined experts from across the education sector during the Think Edu7, in a discussion that was titled ‘Is the public-private relationship actually skilling India or killing education?’
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