Human Resources committee  I was talking about this concept of a mashup, and what we are seeing now is that it's not just the kinds of things that we do in the ICT sector, as Morgan and Karna talked about. In every other field, technology will be integral to what happens in that field. You'll have smart

Human Resources committee  Yes, I strongly agree with this. There are other things we could do as well around sharing best practices and creating an infrastructure for sharing best practices in various kinds of experiential learning, including co-op, but also others. The second would be to help post-second

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Daniel. Actually, I was just recently involved in a survey of a number of major ICT employers in Canada, large and small. Everything that Mr. Elliott and Mr. Gupta say was validated. But there's another piece as well, which is that particularly large global compan

Human Resources committee  We've done it. Three years ago we designed a new program called business technology management. We formed a committee of about half a dozen employers and half a dozen universities. We designed a set of learning outcomes. We convinced the universities that this was an opportunity.

Human Resources committee  Yes, it did. The graduates of these programs are all getting jobs.

Human Resources committee  I'd just like to add a couple of information points. As we understand it, the sector councils themselves are going through this transition, but the sector council program, or what was formerly the sector council program, continues to have a budget, part of which is, as I underst

Human Resources committee  I am going to answer in English because it is easier for me. First of all, I just want to clarify the numbers. What I said in my presentation was that women make up less than 20% of those in the really hard-core technical programs, but actually, overall among ICT professionals,

Human Resources committee  We need to be doing this every year.

Human Resources committee  I was somewhat involved with that study and I know a little bit about how the data was gathered for it. First of all the electrical and electronic engineers was one category of occupation that they identified, one of those national occupational codes that I was talking about. An

Human Resources committee  Can I add a couple of comments as well? On the concept of the new narrative, we surveyed 1,000 high school students across Canada a couple of years ago. We asked them a word-association question: what does a career in this field mean to you? The response from about 30% to 40% of

Human Resources committee  Okay.

Human Resources committee  The government has actually done a lot of data gathering on this topic, and it has a model for doing it. A lot of that information is published on a monthly basis. But I agree with you that it's not sufficient. One of the reasons it's not sufficient is that the occupational class

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon, and thank you for the opportunity to appear today. I believe everybody has a copy of my presentation. I am David Ticoll, executive director of the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow's ICT Skills. The focus of CCICT, as we call it, is Canada