Q1.
The changes to jobs due to digitization are job creation, job destruction, job changes itself, and job shift. Job creation in the digital world refers to establishing new careers in the economy that could not have been there if digitization was absent. Job destruction is the replacement, or rather jobs becoming redundant due to advancements in digital technology. Job changes due to deviations in digital trends will lead to incorporating digital skills among the labour force for the employees to remain competitive in the job market. Lastly, the job shift is migration to careers formally regarded to have low demand in the labour market.
Q2.The digital skills pyramid is categorized into; e-business skills, digital specialist skills, and digital user skills. E-business skills consist of business skills and technical skills, which involves identifying how digital technologies can identify new business opportunities. Digital specialist skills are proficiencies in researching, designing, producing, managing, and maintaining information communication and technological equipment, while digital user skills are required skills for effective use of ICT tools, components, and systems.
Q3.Additional digital skills are operational skills, content creation skills, information management skills, and social skills.
Q4.Telemedicine is a novel practice in the health industry where patients seek medical services from caregiving without moving from their homes or places of work using digital technology.
Q5. Dr Julielynn Wong is a physician, scientist, and pilot who uses 3D printing to give much-needed health solutions globally and even in outer space.
Q6. Lisa Jackson is a chemical engineer professional who served as an administrator of the United States Environment Protection Agency. During her tenancy, she started a campaign to transition all company facilities to a hundred per cent renewable energy.
Q7. IoT is the abbreviation of the words Internet of Things. It refers to occurrences where network connections and computing abilities are transferred to other previously not regarded items as computers.
Q8. Settings for the Internet of Things applications are Home, Human, Retail environment, Factories, Vehicles, and Cities. These can be explained as; Home comprised of smart homes as home controllers and security systems. The second setting is the human setting, whose examples are devices for monitoring and maintaining human health and overall wellbeing. Finally, the retail environment setting has banks, stores, and restaurants as its examples.
References:
Biggs, P., Johnson, T., Lozanova, Y. O. U. L. I. A., & Sundberg, N. A. N. C. Y. (2012). Emerging issues for our hyperconnected world. The global information technology report, 47-56.