Two interesting articles from the NYT. The first is about a technology skills shortage in Europe ... "By 2015, about 900,000 information and communications technology vacancies may go unfilled ...". Tech companies in Ireland are hiring from abroad. Yet both Europe and Ireland have not given up on the Tech panacea. Europe has not learned from the failure of the Lisbon Agenda. It has set itself some new audacious goals (see page 22 in the document below):
- Creating the world's largest and richest digital single market for content and services
- Creating the world's largest cloud enabled ICT market
I guess they figure Snowdon has pretty much killed the U.S. Tech industry. The second article suggests that Ireland is also relying on Tech for growth. I don't get it! But I am more optimistic about the return of the Celtic Tiger ... If you want to drink whiskey you gotta work!
BTW ...
Here’s a quick way to remember how some of the world’s biggest producers spell their products:
- Countries that have E’s in their names (UnitEd StatEs and IrEland) tend to spell it whiskEy (plural whiskeys)
- Countries without E’s in their names (Canada, Scotland, and Japan) spell it whisky (plural whiskies)
more on that here ...