Deloitte: India, Bangladesh and Pakistan Least Prepared for Automation in APAC
India ranks fifth highest in terms of the impact from automation and ninth in terms of level preparedness, according to a recent research study conducted by Deloitte and commissioned by Autodesk Foundation.
The country faces a greater likelihood of being impacted by automation due to larger employment shares in agriculture, manufacturing and construction — all identified as high-risk industries by the report titled ‘The Future of Work is Now: Is APAC Ready?’
It explores the state of automation and future of work across 12 Asia Pacific countries including Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The report aims to help identify the labour markets most vulnerable to technological disruption in APAC and propose solutions to help workforces thrive as automation becomes a reality.
The research finds India, Bangladesh and Pakistan are most at risk and least prepared for the coming wave of automation.
Covid-19 has greatly accelerated the adoption of automation across the world. According to the report, close to half of all businesses intend to increase their adoption of robotic process automation over the next year. However, the report points to one common conclusion regardless of geography: automation will create opportunity if the right support mechanisms are put in place and the focus is put squarely on helping workers to succeed.
AWS: Datacentre Carbon Footprint Higher Among APAC Organizations
Despite efforts by organisations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to improve the energy efficiency of their datacentres, their carbon footprint is still higher than that of hyperscale cloud providers which tend to maximise
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That was one of the key findings of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) commissioned study involving more than 500 organisations in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and India, which revealed that energy savings of nearly 80% can be achieved by running business applications in the cloud rather than in corporate datacentres.
In Singapore, the study found that organisations that move to cloud would see an average workload energy reduction of 76%, which amounts to 1,542 metric tonnes of carbon per megawatt of datacentre capacity per year.
This was despite the fact that Singapore organisations already operate one of the most efficient on-premise datacentres in the region by consolidating more workloads, adopting the latest server technologies, and refreshing their servers more frequently.
On-premise datacentres in Singapore, even though they operate in a tropical climate, have a self-reported power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio of 1.89, the study found. By contrast, hyperscale cloud providers tend to have PUE figures of between 1.1 and 1.4.
Organisations in other countries such as India and Australia with less efficient datacentre facilities would see the biggest reductions in their carbon footprint by moving to the cloud, the study found.
Major cloud providers such as AWS are already this by working towards procuring 100% renewable energy for all of its energy needs by 2030, a goal it is set to achieve by 2025.
Study: Kiwi-Indian IT professionals contributed over $350 million to the New Zealand economy
Kiwi-Indian IT professionals contributed over $350 million to the New Zealand economy in 2020, new study finds
A book released in Wellington today, revealed that Indian IT professionals are estimated to have contributed more than $350 million to the New Zealand economy in 2020.
Titled “From Yesterday to Tomorrow; 60 Years of Tech in New Zealand”, it marks 60 years of IT Professionals New Zealand (ITP NZ).
New Zealand too has been a beneficiary of this immense talent, and from the development of its earliest systems and infrastructure, through to the current fibre roll-out, Indian IT professionals have played a significant role.
The report estimates that Indian IT professionals Indian IT professionals in 2020 contributed more than USD 350 Million to New Zealand’s GDP including over USD 94 million in taxation.
This is the first estimate of its kind.
A separate report by Sense & Partners, commissioned by the Waitakere Indian Association, estimated that Kiwi-Indian contributed an estimated $10 billion to New Zealand’s economy in 2020.
