ICT skills shortage set to worsen as pipeline slows down and workers retire | IT World Canada News
Despite the looming threat of recession, Canada still has a skills shortage in the digital economy, according to the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC), and we’re not training enough people to fill the growing gap.
A new ICTC report, Digital Economy Supply: Canada’s Post-Secondary Education Stream, confirms the pipeline that produces workers who know how to leverage modern technologies is not keeping up with demand. While this is an issue that’s important for all players in the digital economy, it should be of particular concern to CIOs who are leading the digital transformation of their organizations. This skills shortage as recent technology developments such as the Internet of Things, social, mobile, analytics and the cloud are all affecting all sectors and enterprises of the Canadian economy.
And not only is the pipeline not getting filled, there is already a skills shortage, the report says, and ICT enrollment decreased gradually every year for seven consecutive years since 2001, following the collapse of the dot-com bubble. This situation will continue to deteriorate unless something is done, the ICTC says, as the anticipated cumulative demand is for 182,000 ICT skilled workers by 2019. Read More…