Researchers predict a lack of personnel with data security skills
By 2030, our society will demand 15,000 people with data security expertise, while the same year’s access to that education will be offered to only 11,000, estimates a recent NIFU report.
The need for data security expertise will increase in the future, but the supply will not meet demand, according to the report. The Nordic Institute for Studies of Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) has made a request to the Ministry of Justice and Emergency Affairs.
The researchers believe slots for this study need to be increased by a third to cover the gap, but emphasize that it is ahead in time at this moment and that reservations must be made.
The government has taken steps to close the gap between supply and demand for labor in IT security. In 2016, 100 study slots were earmarked for IT, of which 65 for IT security. Furthermore, educational institutions are asked to put 500 new study slots in the field in 2017.
– “It’s good that we have received a broader study of IT security and competence in higher education. I am sure it will provide a good basis for us to be better prepared and those who major in IT will have secured jobs in the future’, says Justice and Emergency Minister Per-Willy Amundsen (Frp).
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MARKING THE LAUNCH BY THE COBUQUA PEOPLE OF THE EASTERN CAPE OF THEIR BLOG: https://cobuqua.wordpress.com, 23 March 2017: SPEAKING OUT FOR JUSTICE, REDRESS and RECOGNITION
The Wild Coast – home of the Cobuqua people, a Khoi-San nation in the Eastern Cape
There has been a long history in Southern Africa of the issues of Khoi-San people being deliberately erased by successive political regimes in the country. This is despite the extensive archaeological evidence of the existence of the “strandlopers”. the ancestors of today’s Khoi San people, who have been genetically identified in the African Genome Project as bearers of the oldest DNA in the world.
The history of the erasure of the identities, origins and lifestyles of the Khoi San people, has been extraordinarily costly, especially to the Cape Khoi who lived a nomadic existence of small connected groups who harvested seafood from the ocean and from the rocky shorelines of the coast. Their’s was a sustainable lifestyle that is much sought after in the context of today’s climate change challenges.
The people who lived along the coast of the former Transkei homeland, the Cobuqua people, continue to suffer the impacts of dispossession and impoverishment that saw them forcibly removed from their ancestral lands as recently as 1976, under the regime of then Chief Minister of the Transkei, Chief Kaiser Matanzima.
The Cobuqua people have never forgotten their origins and have remained connected despite their displacement to five regions of the Eastern Cape – around Mthatha, Buffalo City, Matatiele, Aliwal North and Queenstown. There is a deep hunger amongst the youth of the Cobuqua people to recover their sense of identity and purpose. This is the powerful hope of the future as international actions to recognise indigenous peoples gain traction across the world.
Today, the Cobuqua people begin to SPEAK OUT to introduce all readers and concerned persons to their stories and their aspirations as they struggle to access their human rights and social, political, economic and cultural justice.
We invite you to sign up on their new blog and to follow their stories as they struggle for a recognition that meets the requirements of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The contestations are huge in this important struggle as they rise to end the continuing suppression of their struggles for justice, redress and recognition.
Our freedom remains incomplete without the achievement of freedom for all in South Africa.
The blog address is https://cobuqua.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/introducing-the-cobuqua/
Contact person: Chief Joseph Wade: Cell: 073 683 1104; 082 971 1478 and 073 055 4639
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