ICT culturing in Yemen to enhance

Yemenis Employment status

By

Salah Amean Ahmmed Saeed(1),Chan Koh(2)(1)Graduate student, Seoul National University of Science & Technology, department

of computer science and Engineering.

(2)Professor, Seoul National University of Science & Technology, department of computer science and Engineering.

Location

• Asia

• Middle east

• South: Arabia Sea

• North: Saudi Arabia

• East: Oman

• West: Red Sea

Sanaa’

Socatra

YEMEN Current Challenges• Adult literacy rate

recorded in 2010 was 65.3%(male)

Illiteracy and Education

Negligibility:

• 15-20% percent in the last two yearsInflation

• “I belong to a X tribe”Tribal regime:

YEMEN Current Challenges

Society influence on government officers

Nepotism and

Corruption

Since the Arab spring, Yemen is struggling to stride towards new Yemen

Political instability

Limited resources, high unemploymentFragile

Economy

Desertification, water shortage,Environme

ntal

Yemen current Economic situation• Limited resources

•Petroleum %25 of GDP

•%70 of the overall income

• 33 years of one corrupted ruler

• Problems in all aspect of life

• Al-Qaeda attack

Unemployment rate Problem

Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/yemen/unemployment-rate

Picture is worth a thousand word• ICT effect was one of the major causes of changing the ex-

government•Facebook, YouTube role as mean of communication amongst people

•Played a great role gathering demonstrators

•Disseminate contents, e.g., Al-karama Friday massacre, to the public.

ICT hoped Role

• Play a constructive role

• The limited resources in Yemen, makes extra emphasis on the introduction of ICT

• For developed countries, ICT is essential part of daily life

• Give people the confidence to look for jobs locally or internationally.

• To help the troubled country in term of •More job opportunities for people (locally or globally)

•Improve their income

•Improve the economy status in general

Is it really a problem?

src:http://www.unicef.org/sowc09/docs/SOWC09-Table5Education.xls

Suggestions

• Taking basic steps toward integrating ICT into people life •Providing technical programs and courses for the sake of introduction

of ICT into life

•Eradicating illiteracy, will assist employment status

• No need to Reinvent the wheel,•Learning from Saudi Arabia and UIA experiences

why ICT?

• ICT is yemen is not really utilized .

• Numerous graduates who lacks ICT skills are left out without jobs due to the type of their certificates.

• Unempolyment rate is attributed to many reasons; •illiteracy is major factor

• Barely non-existing educational institutes that provides citizens with the right education

Discussion

• Corruption fighting is be eliminated in the same manner the ex-dictatorship was ousted.

• Literacy is great factor in encouraging people look for jobs and make them more succeptible to get hired

• Illiteracty impedes people from chances and from even trying to look for new jobs

• The critical role played by ICT asssets during the last demonestation is expected to be be part in the p

Conclusion

• Yemeni unemployment problem could be eradicated by the introduction of ICT.

• ICT culturing is expected to resuscitate people chances of getting jobs and make them more competitive

• ICT culture is expected to enhance people’s employment chances and affect the economy in general

• Introducing ICT technology to all educational institute, public schools, private schools, etc. this introduction is supposed to be the first step toward real solution to the problem

Future work

• A thorough investigation on ways countries like Korea used to be amongst the top countries in the world.

• Conducting surveys on proposed solutions to the current problems especially those related to the soft skill part.

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