Education, Skills and Learning

Digital technology helped create the skills gap. Here's how it can help close it 

Employees of German car parts maker Continental inspect a printed circuit board at a factory of the company's Powertrain unit in Nuremberg, Germany, March 01, 2019. Picture taken March 1, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert - RC11DB2C5510

Here's how the manufacturing sector can close the skills gap – using digital technologies. Image: REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

Natan Linder
Chief Executive Officer, Tulip Interfaces Inc.
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