PwC’s efforts to engage with key stakeholders Inclusivity and skills is New world. New skills., through which we seek to to discuss how these issues affect us all include If we are to increase inclusivity and create an enable more people to gain the digital skills they will working with the Global Solutions Initiative economy that beneifts and serves the interests of need for success in the future. (GSI) - a global forum for different stakeholders society, we need to prepare people properly for and a network of world-renowned think tanks to the jobs they do today - and also the jobs they will New world. New skills: Upskilling communities collaborate on policy responses to major global do tomorrow. This is particularly true in the wake Our New world. New skills. initiative is aimed at problems addressed by the G20, the G7 and other of COVID-19, which has upended the livelihood addressing the mismatch between the skills people global governance forums. Our collaboration of millions of people around the world, exposed have today and those needed for the digital world. with GSI has grown out of the need to provide a structural weaknesses in institutions and economics, Of the 4.3 million people, NGOs and social and more integrated, coherent response to pressing widened existing disparities and hit the already micro enterprises we reached last year through our societal issues across different stakeholder groups, disadvantaged particularly hard. Simply put, the community programmes, over 50% (2.7 million) were including business. technological change now underway is of such involved in New world. New skills. initiatives. scope and speed that it requires an urgent global Part of our work with the GSI is in support of its upskilling effort, and - if left unaddressed - poses The jobs of the future will require skills that are harder Global Solutions Summit. This event helps business serious societal and economic risks. That is why we to come by for many, especially in communities where leaders and policymakers collaborate on issues of are committed to action that improves inclusivity and opportunities are scarce. Research ifgures paint a global importance, with a focus on bringing about enables more people to participate in and beneift stark picture. One-third of young people surveyed systemic change to ensure our economies deliver from the economy, and from societal progress more by UNICEF said they lacked opportunities to acquire sustained outcomes for societies. broadly. Our biggest global programme in this area skills for the future, and it’s estimated that around