{"id":2441,"date":"2023-03-08T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/40.117.174.162\/how-the-dia-programs-jet-project-incorporated-citibeats-ethical-ai-platform-to-help-jamaican-youth-succeed-in-the-digital-economy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:40:25","slug":"how-the-dia-programs-jet-project-incorporated-citibeats-ethical-ai-platform-to-help-jamaican-youth-succeed-in-the-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/how-the-dia-programs-jet-project-incorporated-citibeats-ethical-ai-platform-to-help-jamaican-youth-succeed-in-the-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"How the DIA Program's JET Project Jamaica incorporated Citibeats\u2019 Ethical AI platform to Help Jamaican Youth Succeed in the Digital Economy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rapid expansion of the digital technology landscape poses challenges for young people disproportionately affected by the mismatch between their digital skills and those in demand by the labor market. In 2022, the unemployment rate for youth was 6 times above pre-pandemic levels*. This calls for prioritizing employability and upskilling strategies to build a resilient labor market.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To tackle this issue, the DIA Program<\/strong><\/a> launched the \\”Jamaican Youth through Empowerment & Training\\”<\/strong> (JET)<\/strong><\/a> project, which aims to re-skill and up-skill youth with the most demanded digital and soft skills and later connect them with jobs or freelancing opportunities or support them in developing entrepreneurial ventures.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DIA Program has been working with Jamaican youth since 2016 through its DIA Urban Lab and the NCB Icon Lab, which gives them a wealth of experience in these areas of operation. To make the JET Project Jamaica even more cutting-edge, DIA partnered with Citibeats<\/strong><\/a>, whose ethical AI platform designed the Employment and Skills Monitor<\/strong>. It enabled it to identify Jamaica\\’s labor market trends and quickly develop innovative training curricula that respond to real-time labor market needs.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Employment and Skills Monitor reflects that Jamaicans\\’ three most demanded digital skills are programming, web, app development, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Media Management. These findings, as well as other relevant insights such as the most demanded skills by sector, the general sentiments towards specific digital skills, and a global perspective towards these areas, boost our efforts at the DIA Program to tailor our JET project to what the people, behind all these data numbers really want, desire and aspire.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u202fThe partnership with Citibeats represents a powerful opportunity to leverage artificial intelligence and data to improve the lives of young people in Jamaica. The Employment and Skills Monitor provides an ethical and effective way to collect and analyze data, allowing organizations like The Trust for the Americas through the DIA program to make data-driven decisions that can help improve the lives of young people in Jamaica and beyond.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is how the DIA Program\\’s JET Project Jamaica incorporated Citibeats\\’ Ethical AI platform to help Jamaican youth succeed in the digital economy by using data to drive social impact. To learn more, check out our latest report<\/strong><\/a>.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Source: ILO<\/a> (2022) <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rapid expansion of the digital technology landscape poses challenges for young people, who are disproportionately affected by the mismatch between their digital skills and those in demand in the labor market. In 2022, the youth unemployment rate was six times higher than pre-pandemic levels*. This calls for prioritizing employability and upskilling strategies to build a resilient labor market.\u202f\u00a0 To address this issue, the DIA Program launched the \u201dJamaican Youth through Empowerment & Training\u201d (JET) project, which aims to reskill and upskill youth in the most in-demand digital and soft skills and subsequently connect them with jobs or freelance opportunities or support them in developing entrepreneurial ventures.\u202f\u00a0 The DIA Program has been working with Jamaican youth since 2016 through its DIA Urban Lab and the NCB Icon Lab, which has provided the program with extensive experience in these areas of operation. To make the JET Project Jamaica even more cutting-edge, DIA partnered with Citibeats, whose ethical AI platform designed the Employment and Skills Monitor. This enabled the program to identify trends in Jamaica\u2019s labor market and quickly develop innovative training curricula that respond to real-time labor market needs. The Employment and Skills Monitor reveals that the three most in-demand digital skills among Jamaicans are programming, web and app development, artificial intelligence, and social media management. These findings, along with other relevant insights\u2014such as the most in-demand skills by sector, general attitudes toward specific digital skills, and a global perspective on these areas\u2014strengthen our efforts at the DIA Program to tailor our JET Project to what the people behind all these data points truly want, desire, and aspire to.\u202f\u00a0 \u202fThe partnership with Citibeats represents a powerful opportunity to leverage artificial intelligence and data to improve the lives of young people in Jamaica. The Employment and Skills Monitor provides an ethical and effective way to collect and analyze data, enabling organizations such as The Trust for the Americas\u2014through the DIA Program\u2014to make data-driven decisions that can help improve the lives of young people in Jamaica and beyond.\u202f\u00a0 This is how the DIA Program\u2019s JET Project Jamaica incorporated Citibeats\u2019 Ethical AI platform to help Jamaican youth succeed in the digital economy by using data to drive social impact. To learn more, check out our latest report.\u202f * Source: ILO (2022)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,97,98,22,44,99,100,101,102,52],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-digital-skills","tag-future-of-work","tag-innovation","tag-jamaica","tag-jet","tag-programming","tag-skills","tag-social-media","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trust-oea.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}