TY - GEN
T1 - A regional IT occupational partnership for economic development
AU - Trauth, Eileen M.
AU - Reinert, Mike
AU - Zigner, Michael C.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Increasingly, the economic viability of regions, states and countries is being linked to the viability of technology-enabled, knowledge-intensive economic sectors. Hence, among the factors of interest in regional economic development is the availability of an information technology (IT) talent pool. There is a growing need to understand the regional supply and demand dynamics of appropriately educated IT professionals. Consequently, an action research project was undertaken in Berks County, Pennsylvania in order to better understand the IT skill and knowledge requirements of the local labor force. An occupational partnership representing three constituencies - academe, local industry and government - joined forces in order to develop a sustainable mechanism for ensuring the continuance of a qualified IT labor force.
AB - Increasingly, the economic viability of regions, states and countries is being linked to the viability of technology-enabled, knowledge-intensive economic sectors. Hence, among the factors of interest in regional economic development is the availability of an information technology (IT) talent pool. There is a growing need to understand the regional supply and demand dynamics of appropriately educated IT professionals. Consequently, an action research project was undertaken in Berks County, Pennsylvania in order to better understand the IT skill and knowledge requirements of the local labor force. An occupational partnership representing three constituencies - academe, local industry and government - joined forces in order to develop a sustainable mechanism for ensuring the continuance of a qualified IT labor force.
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U2 - 10.1145/1235000.1235026
DO - 10.1145/1235000.1235026
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34248202013
SN - 1595936416
SN - 9781595936417
T3 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference: The Global Information Technology Workforce, SIGMIS-CPR 2007
SP - 112
EP - 120
BT - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference
T2 - 2007 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference: The Global Information Technology Workforce, SIGMIS-CPR 2007
Y2 - 19 April 2007 through 21 April 2007
ER -