[Air-l] @LIS "SKILL SHORTAGE" @LIS SEARCH FOR PARTNERS

[Paolo Manzelli]

@LIS "SKILL SHORTAGE"  @LIS  SEARCH FOR PARTNERS
ACTION PLAN INFORMATION

Dear Partners and potential partners ,
before to ho in Holidays from 2002/AUG/01 to 2002/AUG/25,

I would like to send to you the complete ACTION PLAN that will be the
guideline for the Organization of the WORKING PLAN of the
@LIS "SHILL SHORTAGE  BID .

I would like to remember that until now I received only the accepted
proposal to come into the INTERNATIONA TASK FORCE for
building up the BID for the call @LIS only by Rodrigo Varela Villegas
<rvarela at icesi.edu.co>.

I am very gratefull if other partners would like to come in the the
INTERNATIONA TASK FORCE of the SKILL SHORTAGE Pilot Project
challenge.

My best regards to all. Paolo Manzelli  2002/July/27 Firenze.


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SKILL SHORTAGE @LIS NET LEARNIN INITIATIVE .to co-operate  among EUROPEAN &
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES attempting to raise the
innovation and creativity of scientific and technological e.learning  in a
cultural diversity scenario See:

http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/lre/alis/index.htm

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ACTION PLAN SYNTHESES – SKILL SHORTAGE – @LIS PILOT PROJECT

- Premise

The “SKILL SHORTAGE” – @LIS ACTION PLAN  for an e.learning in cultural
diversity will be finalised to  a co-operation
-partnership for the increase of the
“KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (KM) SKILL BUILDING”  of  the  Small and Medium
Enterprises (SME’s) in a context of Internationalisation
of “. Markets” between Europe and Latin America.

The SKILL SHORTAGE, is born from the belief that in one world-wide scenario
,
always more integrated, also as a result of the reduction of the
trade-barriers,
combined to the increase of the logistics of the transports, the productive
delocalisation of SME’s  can represent a remarkable resource  of global
development and moreover a good opportunity  for the intellectual job of the

University’s graduated, to generate a synergetic conditions of increase of
the
quality of    SME’s production sustainability in respect of ecological
principles in the challenge  of the contemporary evolution of the society
post-manufacturer of the “KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN ECONOMY” .
.

The ACTION PLAN main topics of the  SKILL SHORTAGE would be in short a
preliminary proposal about the issues to be studied for improving creative
models and units for an   "e.Learning on demand system "for the renewal of
the
Knowledge Management, in a way that the SKILL SHORTAGE pilot project can bee

seen  likewise a plan of growing creative sensitivity improving a  mutual
“e.learning” between Universities  and SME’s to favour one renewed
production of
a shared knowledge bettering a collaborative development between Europe and
Latin America.

The SKILL SHORTAGE PILOT PROJECT ACTION PLAN  will reply to the following
fundamental questions :

   Question  1.)
   *       what research & developmental aspects you wish to tackle in the
international Demonstration  project between EU and South American
countries?

   Re: 1.) The  key topics of the SKILL SHORTAGE action plan for improving
the
economic
  knowledge driven society it is the following :

- a) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's on innovation in science &
  technology
  - b) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's on food quality & safety
  traceability
  - c) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's  on bridging gap of "digital

divide" ( - looking for a way to bridge the gap between knowledge content
  production and consumers utilisation through an e.learning on demand
knowledge
building   model.)
  - d) Knowledge Management innovation of SME's  on "eco-economic"
sustainability

  The main goal of the above action plan is devoted to a new understanding
of
  Knowledge Management organisation of SME's diminishing the uncertainty
and
  insecurity of the market  globalisation by means bettering "knowledge
sharing"   among University and SME's networks and through growing up the
internationalisation of the market transparency by means an extension  of
Information Communication Technology  work-space.
A second important objective is to given a strong effort to increase
positively
the relationship between intellectual employment and SME's
internationalisation growth though an net-learning  strategy finalised for
co-ordinating SME's competencies and University research advanced knowledge.

  Question  2.)

How would you see an international incubator facility between  SME's and
       Universities has a concrete added value in real life  transactions?

  Re: 2.)

The Skill Shortage @LIS action plan would like to develop, through a
Co-operative Virtual e.Editor ( see for instance a model in  :
http://www.see.it/blues/ ) to contribute to an new emerging conception of
"e.work  brain organisation" for developing a "Glocalized" (i.e. Global +
Local
developmental integration)  economic development  among  European and Latin
American  Countries .  As well as a forecast result,  the pilot project
SKILL
SHORTAGE, (before the   end of the financial aid of EU) ,  will give a
demonstration on the implication of   societal change in "e.work
international
organisation  of KM " on education and  training in lifelong and vocational
learning for SME's special needs and associated  business models.

- a) - FIRST Priority TOPIC
-
- Content “ SCIENCE & SOCIETY” :
- Goal: understanding the impact of Science on Society for meeting the
Knowledge
Management challenges in a Global Networked Knowledge Economy.- The goal of
such
topic will be to understand the Restructuring   Strategies for "KM"-  SKILL
BUILDING

-Internationalisation of SME's need of the improvement of  innovative
Knowledge
management for giving a significant  investment   in intellectual  expansion

able to overcome the difficulties due to   the  structural changes  in the
global economy and environmental risks.
Hence the Internationalisation of SME's  undoubtedly performs the main and
very
delicate task of assisting the enterprises in identifying and choosing
technological/ business "eco-economics" strategies capable of enabling them
to
present themselves as protagonists of culture & science improvement on  the
international scene.
Therefore by internationalisation of SME's the LRE/EGO-CreaNET of the
University of Florence,  means “ not only “ to promote the commercial
penetration of SME's into the new global markets, but also to generate a
deeper  exchange than before  among Science & Society among University &
SME's ,
for bettering  a very high cultural and scientific level of science
popularisation  opening the mind of  the W.W.W.citizenschip.
 In conclusion  the research & development of innovative acquisition of
these
new markets for the internationalisation of SME's in the contemporary
scenario
of the  third  millennium “KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY" ,  are gaining prominent
importance,  in the field of improving SCIENCE & SOCIETY developmental
understanding .
Now,  for developing and ACTION PLAN we must open a debate to foresee a
partner's different analysis in a cultural diversity context on topical
issues
of SCIENCE impact on  SOCIETY strengthen links between productive SME's ,
University Centres Research and Society.
In fact scientific progress is an essential challenge for common  future
competitiveness and also for enhancing quality of life .
Therefore starting from those considerations the SKILL SHORTAGE endeavour
requires a great deal of effort in terms of R&D for the development of
innovative Knowledge. Management networking  e.learning strategies for on
the
job permanent education.
It is important to underline that for the goals of the  SKILL SHORTAGE
ACTION
PLAN on Net-Learning , it will be essential to develop a greater diversity
on
scientific and cultural  perspectives .
Diversity in science can be encouraged through a multidisciplinary
integrated
approach of Net-Learning objects , oriented to set   out a differential
system
on science popularisation in relationship to different   aspects of local
cultures of citizen in a way that the Pilot Project would be  able to
improve
responsible science avoiding potential negative impact of  Science &
Society  by
means a well prepared KM on  ethics for human health and on  environmental
sciences.

   -b) -- II° Priority  TOPIC
Content: “FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY “
Goal: Keeping the Traceability problem as well as an opportunity  for
bridging
the gap between intellectual unemployment and the development of Knowledge
based
Society.

The “SKILL SHORTAGE “ proposal for the call @LIS  on e.learning in a
cultural
diversity ,aims to improve an   international incubation facilities and
appropriate promotional means growing up a
  partnership consortium in Knowledge Management (K.M.) networking for
e.learning among Universities and SME’s aiming to support  SME’s
competitiveness
in the internationalisation of production and retailing into  the  evolution
of
global  communication system.
Henceforth  for SME’s competitive strategy it will be important to open a
priority issues for a K.M. innovation in some multidisciplinary issues of
“SKILL
SHORTAGE” ­TASKS for developing a innovative WORKING PLAN .
The second priority issue that the LRE/EGO-CreaNET concerns the thematic
priority of : “FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY” for improving traceability processes
along all production and transformation chains .
The issue of  “FOOD QUALITY & SAFETY” for the future ability to co-operate
in a
international context of SME’s marketing between Europe and Latin American
Countries and for getting successful to this goal it will be necessary
reinforcing a web-based multidisciplinary co-operation among Universities
and
SME’s .
In fact “FOOD- TRACEABILITY” means to trace food from “FARMS to FORK”
through all stages of production and distribution. As a
matter of facts “All Stages”
means  that , in the next market and marketing future, it will be
indispensable
a complete transparent commercial sustainable environment inclusive of
primary
agricultural production food up to its transformation and sale or supply to
the
final  consumer consumption.
The ability to trace down animal or agricultural foods origin through
bio-technology DNA fingerprinting  to any further food chain transformation
today constitute an  extremely relevant web-based data system for the
quality
food’s certification and  in respect to the safety of people all over the
world.  Hence the growth of Food’s Traceability systems it will be important
for
SKILL BUILDING of new team professions because need a multidisciplinary and
multi-enterprise net-working  approach that need to integrate scientific,
legal
and productive capabilities  co-operating in a way to be able to reply to a
quick and efficient retrieval of transparent information finalised to
guarantee
and to control and to certificate the quality and safety of any food.
For the above reasons the SLILL SHORTAGE @LIS proposal of EGO-CreaNET/LRE of
NET-Learning in a cultural diversity, will develop
an Action Plan for skill
foresight in the field of FOOD TRACEABILITY, aiming to support a K.M.
innovation
anticipating the identification of future needs of  SME’s  responsibility
and
decisions in food standards traceability at the international level for
improving a transparent productive and commercial environment in the global
market space. Hence this II° ACTION PLAN TASK  on FOOD  QUALITY & SAFETY  it
is to consider a strategic priority for K.M. of the
future SME’s & University co-operation.
 See for instance:
 http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/index_en.html
  http://www.globefish.org/presentations/Trazabilidad/slide11.htm
  See also: http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/ogm2.html
  ;http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/sicurezza_alimentare.html
  http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/cibo.html
  http://www.edscuola.com/archivio/lre/agritraccia.html

- c) -- III° Priority TOPIC –
-
- Content:  Bridging “Digital Divide” into a net economy co-Intelligence
digital
age strategy.
-     Goal : Understanding and implementing the “DIGITAL DIVIDE “ overcoming

strategy , as well as a priority area to bridge the gap between science
production centres with knowledge consumers.

The notion of a 'Digital Divide' originally arose in the context of  the
internet boom   of the 1990s;  we need to remember that  at that times  the
international dialog on    this issue was focused  to the strategies  for
enhancing access to Information Communication Technology  for reducing the
international “Digital Divide” gap   between an elite people and the
technology
deprived new poverty .Today we live in a  coming Internet depression, so
that
most recent  reports  understand that a tech driven economical recession of
will  cause  layoffs among   the skill shortage of educated and skilled
“brain
e.workers” that are the dominant   force for improving networking digital
economy.  As a matter of facts  it is extremely visible that in the
countries
where the digital gap is reduced this do not open a dynamics of growth of
cognitive forces driving the Networked Knowledge
Economy
Hence the key message here is : web integrated ventures forwarding the
“Digital
Divide” gap need to start looking at  this as a mass development  useful for

renewing the knowledge management net-learning  opportunities.
Therefore the notion of  “Digital Divide”  in the contest of cultural
diversity
development among Europe and Latin America, is changed from the  initial
effort
in the technological innovation  to the  question how it will be possible to
get
ahead, the big problem of new knowledge management in a way that it  will
able
to  ensure that some  large people - groups in society were not left behind
by
the prosperity  into a developmental Knowledge Economy.
This is a problem of a fundamental importance all over the world because  if

there are no possibilities to diminishing  the gap though a new  economical
intelligence useful for the KNOWLEDGE DRIVEN SOCIETY , the  traditional
world-
economy slows and perhaps goes into a deep recession.
Because information technology evolves a mind boggling rate, it's becoming
more
important for people to have the skills to  evolve with  it. Therefore
extended
education models and program experimentation  and  demonstration in
net-learning, are extremely a contemporary need to explore strategies for
improving literacy and learning opportunities  for  decreasing the
effectively
DIGITAL DIVIDE  in spite of this if we cannot cultivate these Knowledge
Management creative skills,   ....................... the digital divide
will
persist.
This challenge is enormous: in fact any effort to reform an organisation
requires examination of the reform effort's underlying assumptions, social
and
historical contest for the reform, and how reform is congruent with the
values,
ideologies, and goals of the constituents criteria for a new concept of
restricted inequality dominance,  therefore  need to be critical to
understanding how  productive   organisations change or fail to initiate
change their cognitive traditional solutions of
knowledge management. The goal of giving a contribution for Bridging
“Digital Divide” into a net economy co-Intelligence digital
age strategy it will be important for  getting a contribute to the poverty
reduction outcomes through knowledge management on
the job , long life education  and for vocational  education innovations in
the contest of networking e learning extended
programs especially devoted to the improvement of the productive
internationalisation of SME’s .

- d) -- IV° Priority TOPIC –
-
- Content:
- Knowledge management Issues for SME’s  SKILL BUILDING on “ECO-ECONOMY”
- Goal : steps to growing up shared cognitive contributions of sustainable
economy to ameliorate environmental damage before the future earth life
collapse.

The Pilot project “SKILL SHORTAGE” starts with the assumption that Small and

Medium sized Enterprises networking with Universities (by means
SME's-UNIVERSITY knowledge based net-economy agreement ), among
European and Latin American Countries, will be one of the principal driving
sustainability. The focus of a joint programme
strategy for improvement of “Eco-Economy” it will be finalised in building
networks of knowledge-based international
enterprises, that will
correspond to an agreement between  University’s team members and SME’s
that
can collaborate in research and development, of advanced management
interactive
“e.learning” systems, for improving a sustainable environmental economy.
The environmentally sustainable economy — (i.e.  “eco-economy”) is a problem
of
strategic importance all in the world; in spite of this it is evident an
insufficient  management skills for a good manage of “Pollution Earth
Policy” .
As a matter of facts  many SME’s demonstrate the lack of managers with
scientific and technological international experience and foreign cultures
skills. Therefore the project SKILL SHORTAGE, will develop a new
developmental
models improving the human capital in foreign trade oriented SME’s through
management and workforce net-learning programmes and through improving
scientific/ cultural incentives for recruiting recent graduates,  and also
programming on the job activities which could be organised together with
local
educational institutions in favour to redesign a well defined
environmentally
sustainable economy.
Steps to ameliorate environmental earth’s ecosystem damage  before its
collapse
, can be seen as well as a challenge to redesign the materials economy in a
way
that it includes a restructuring of industrial process of goods in a
flexible
network so that products can be easily disassembled and recycled to
eliminate
the high waste  generation of air, water and top-soil and so on
 , that
normally
is the too vast output of large scale industry.
SME’s in co-operation with the research centres of Universities can develop
a
new dematerialised management information systems, finalised to a new global

computer-aided management for a  networked computer-aided manufacturing.
One result of this SKILL BUILDING practice will be  the emergence of what
some
call the "world SME’s factory phenomenon."
Therefore building an “eco-economy” new model of global development,
primarily
depends on restructuring and redesigning agricultural crops and good- SME’s
industrial production, so that it will be compatible with the eco-system
survival.
The big change to fulfil the above goal  is no in the change on the market
structure but primarily consists in the cognitive way that the market is
managed.
The challenge here is to create an “e.learning” international model in a
cultural diversity scenario for overcoming the “SKILL SHORTAGE” to better
manage
the NATURE-CAPITAL .

For example
 by increasing the number of SME’s advanced networking factories
and
industries with University centres of research , for the toxicity control of

chemical and biological pollutants , etc
. but also creating new on the job
modules of  science-popularisation,
etc..   and new professions and
specialisation etc..  in order  to maximise the environmentally sustainable
economy , i.e. 
 recycling materials etc 
 utilising wind and geothermal
localised energy generations,  for reducing the dependence  from gasoline
and carbon energy production, because their  high
pollution and environmental devastation etc 
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All those changes  are greatest necessary for converting the traditional
economy
in a future  “Eco- economy” knowledge driven society.
Hence the project “SKILL SHORTAGE” will give a contribute to close old times

where the design of the old economy normally forget the risk of broken the
solidarity with the natural “eco-system” , so that viceversa the “SKILL
BUILDING” net-learning procedure of innovative knowledge production , can
stimulate  a concrete benefits in for a new coherent economical and
technological intelligence, aiming to avoid to the continuous and
accelerated
damage of natural environment of the contemporary obsolete industrial
society.

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   Director of LRE  // EGO-CreaNET

    PAOLO MANZELLI <LRE at unifi.it>
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