Vice President Margarita Cedeño urged engaging in a broader discussion on how technology, especially robotics and artificial intelligence, can be used to offer clients or visitors a better quality experience, without putting at risk the needed employment. She highlighted the Dominican Republic is an open service-based economy and that already robotics is being used in Dominican industries.
The country must remain at the forefront of technological change to take advantage of the potential for creating more of the better-qualified and better-paid jobs made possible by the fourth industrial revolution, she writes in a feature in the Listin Diario.
She said that countries such as ours cannot afford to postpone the discussion on the new forms of work. She says the times are right for adapting the educational system to technological transformation, to facilitate access to innovation and the development of ideas.
We must continue to invest in young people, so they gain the skills and abilities to be active players in the digital and technological revolution, she writes.
She clarified that whether or not we are needed for the future of humanity will depend on our ability to continually prepare for change, which is already the only constant on the planet.
The future of work is not as far away as we think; it is closer than ever, and it forces us to be proactive, she concludes.
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Listin Diario
21 August 2019