collaboration

innovation agility
visionary integrity
impactful
What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
What is this?
 What is an industrial revolution?

When there are major changes in...

Industry Economy Transportation Society (social structure)

The way we work, buy The way we travel The way we live
and sell things

It’s usually new ways of thinking and doing and

new technologies that cause the change to
happen.
 Number of industrial revolutions so far?

3
And we are now starting number 4. It is changing...
The way we work, buy The way we travel The way we live
and sell things

4 th Industrial Revolution
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Phases of earlier 3 Industrial Revolutions
1. 1760 to 1840 - Ushered in Mechanical production; railways and steam
engine

2. 1870 to 1940 - Mass production; electricity and assembly line

3. 1960 to 2010 - Computers; semi conductors, main frame computing,
personal devices, internet
 4th Industrial Revolution
What’s happening?

Different technologies are coming together

(convergence)
Physical
This is bringing different areas together Digital
Biological

This affects social & economic sectors

The way we work, buy and sell things The way we travel The way we live
 What is happening already?

Different technologies coming together and

bringing different areas together

New products & services

with increased efficiency
(working better and faster)
for a better life

Order a taxi (Uber) Book accommodation

 What is happening already?

Buying goods online

Learning online – education

Listen to music

Watch a film

Play an online game

Paying bills online
 Being developed or new on the market
Artificial intelligence
Robotics

Virtual reality
3D printing
Self
driving
cars

Internet of Things (IoT)

Quantum computing Metadata & analytics

Bioengineering
Digital currencies and blockchain
 Pluses & minuses

See there are advantages and risks For example

Connection Inability to change

Efficiency People not ready and skilled

Improve lives Not able to capture benefits

New opportunities Inequality may grow

 David
David Meads, Meads,
President of CiscoPresident
Africa: quote of Cisco Africa

The Fourth Industrial

Revolution is synonymous
with uncharted growth in
digitisation and internet
connectivity.

It has the potential to

drive Africa forward like
never before, enabling
innovation, spurring new
business models and
improving the delivery of
public services.
 4IR is disruptive & affects everything

All industries are being impacted by this disruption

We have to consider:

Focus on developing skills

Based on partnerships across all

stakeholders.
 Critical skills needed
Critical thinking
Influence curriculum Communication
Collaboration and teamwork
Complex problem solving
Creativity
Emotional intelligence
Influence approaches to
Global awareness
teaching & learning Financial, economic, business and
entrepreneurial literacy
Civic literacy
Health literacy
New skills and Environmental literacy
Computational thinking
competencies required
Judgement and decision making
Service orientation
Negotiating
Cognitive flexibility
Cyber Physical Systems

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a system of collaborating computational elements controlling

physical entities. CPS are physical and engineered systems whose operations are monitored,
coordinated, controlled and integrated by a computing and communication core. They allow us
to add capabilities to physical systems by merging computing and communication with physical
processes.
Today’s Factory
Tomorrow’s Factory
Industry 4.0
Six Design Principles
Interoperability: the ability of cyber-physical systems (i.e. work piece carriers, assembly
stations and products), humans and Smart Factories to connect and communicate with
each other via the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services
Virtualization: a virtual copy of the Smart Factory which is created by linking sensor data
(from monitoring physical processes) with virtual plant models and simulation models
Decentralization: the ability of cyber-physical systems within Smart Factories to make
decisions on their own
Real-Time Capability: the capability to collect and analyze data and provide the insights
immediately
Service Orientation: offering of services (of cyber-physical systems, humans and Smart
Factories) via the Internet of Services
Modularity: flexible adaptation of Smart Factories for changing requirements of
individual modules
Building blocks of Industry 4.0
Autonomous
Robots

Big data
Simulation
analytics

Horizontal and
Augmented
reality Industry 4.0 vertical system
integration

Industrial
Additive Mfg Internet of
Things

Cyber Security
Impacting all aspect of value chain
7 forerunners in the world 7 forerunners in the world

Finland
Switzerland
Sweden generating economic
impact from investments
Israel
in ICTs
Singapore
Netherlands
United States

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global

Information Technology Report 2016.
 Understanding the system Understanding the system

For nearly a decade, we have been talking about the

opportunities technology gives us...
4 to unlock effective citizen service delivery,
4 enhance customer experience
4 and bring about innovative solutions
4 for a better life for all

A number of things were not known at the time More importantly the societal aspect was largely
missed

Today addressing youth unemployment & harnessing human innovation

forms part of the whole
 Some threats andSome threats
opportunities… and opportunities…
Cybersecurity: protecting
Increase of mobile and
organisations and their
internet use comes with
customers’ data, assets and
own threats – cybersecurity
reputations. Also fundamental
– become a massive
to successful digital
global problem. We need
transformation.
the e-skills to combat this.

Digital skills enable services growth.

Service industries require digital skills as part
of transitioning its population from low-skill and
low-pay jobs to high-skill and high-pay jobs.
Data gathering for shaping the Digital Economy Data gathering
“Going forward, it will be
important to reinforce data
gathering efforts in order to
more closely track the
distributional impacts of the
current transformations.

This will make it possible to

shape the digital economy in a
way that delivers broadbased
gains.”

Silja Baller, World Economic

Forum
 Collaboration for impact Innovation opportunities

4IR has lots of opportunities for innovation.

You need to have the digital skills (e-skills)
to make use of those opportunities.
Thank you for
Listening!