Photo: The shortage of skilled labor is considered an obstacle for the use of new technologies. (picture alliance/Sven Simon)
The German digital association Bitkom is drawing attention to the search for skilled labor at the CeBIT computer expo and technology fair in Hanover, Germany.
“Digitization creates many fascinating and lucrative jobs - as well as entirely new perspectives,” said Bitkom president Achim Berg at the opening of the fair. The association wants to show during CeBIT “that digitization is exciting and fun,” he said.
42 percent of companies in Germany consider the shortage of skilled labor to be an obstacle for the use of new technologies, according to a recent Bitkom study. But the EU’s new data privacy legislation, the GDPR, is also viewed as a stumbling block: 63 percent of companies surveyed accordingly see the law’s respective requirements as a hurdle for the deployment of technology.
Until now, there has been “no effective, functioning balance between the protection of personal privacy and the use of data,” criticizes Berg.
According to the study, 76 percent of companies view the Internet of Things as a key competitive technology, followed closely by the use of large volumes of data (Big Data, 74 percent of firms).
Robotics play a major role for 66 percent of firms. “Companies have recognized the immense importance of key digital technologies,” said Berg. “Now we have to rapidly come to their implementation.” This year’s CeBIT, the first to be billed as a “festival” rather than a trade fair, is the “ideal place to experience these new technologies and develop concrete application scenarios.”
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