Video of SETEM Catalunya about the impact of Covid-19 on workers in the electronics sector in India. The pandemic has exacerbated the precariousness and over-exploitation of staff, especially by migrants, and even more so by women.
The Future of Jobs
Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Report that analyses data from the World Economic Forum in order to give a first perspective of the changes that lie ahead. It is divided into two parts
- Part 1: Preparing for the workforce of the fourth industrial revolution
- Part 2: Industry, regional and gender gap profiles
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
Article written by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborneb in 2017 which explores the susceptibility of jobs to computerisation. The investigation is based on US labour market outcomes and it analyses the quantity of jobs that are at risk.
Complete article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040162516302244
Sustainable Facilities Tool
Tool to explore sustainable options and facilitate decision-making on sustainability. The website has distinct search form such as for role and discover content.
Tool website: https://sftool.gov/
More information: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/sustainable-facilities-tool
Gender gap in ICTs
Conference given by Laura Martínez in 2017 within the cycle of the subject of Ethics, Legislation and Profession. The conference explores the professional situation of women in the world of ICT companies and the challenges that this situation poses.
“You, me & TV”
Article named “You, me & TV” - Fighting Social Isolation of Older Adults with Facebook, TV and Multimodality written by José Baptista Coelho, Fábio Rito, and Carlos Duarte in 2016. Social isolation has negative consequences such as decreased quality of life and, in extreme cases, higher mortality risk. The project "You, me & TV" is a television-based multimodal Faceebok prototype and it was tested by three adults aged from 65 to 73 years with different levels of experience in social platforms such as Facebook.
Complete article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309000514_You_me_TV_-_Fighting_Social_Isolation_of_Older_Adults_with_Facebook_TV_and_Multimodality
Resource center of GRI
The GRI's Resource Center comprehends the latest GRI Standards, articles, research, videos, among others.
It has filters to facilitate the search as well as a featured section called "Spotlight items".
Access: https://www.globalreporting.org/how-to-use-the-gri-standards/resource-center/
COLTAN: Science and society
This website cluster information about coltan, its aplications and problems and conflicts related to the mineral. News, videos and articles are published in the website to raise awereness about the reality of this mineral.
More information: http://tierra.rediris.es/coltan/
