The CEO of the National Institute of Professional Technical Training (Infotep)Rafael Santos Badía, proposed to the members of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), prepare a bill with the aim of standardize the training curriculum in the region.
The initiative was part of the presentation made by Santos Badía before the Plenary Assembly of Parlacen where he spoke about “Revolution 4.0 and Central American integration”.
“In this way, we create a large global labor market, with people who will have equal knowledge and opportunities to access the labor market,” said the director of the governing body of the National Technical Training System in the country.
In his presentation before the Parlacen Assembly, Rafael Santos Badía also pointed out that integration provides a more effective environment to address those challenges that compromise the well-being of the population of the member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA).
Santos Badía cited among these challenges the development of local markets for goods and services, the fight against poverty and inequality, the protection of natural resources, the prevention and management of disasters, the fight against organized crime and the adequate insertion in the extra-regional political and economic sphere.
“Integration has shown in the past that it contributes positively to resolving differences that arise in the regionas it happened in the 80s with the Armed conflicts”, explained Santos Badía.
He said that in the Central American integration process, the countries can each decide the pace at which they want to participate in the process and collectively decide how far they want to take it, because the Tegucigalpa protocol does not condition the speed and depth of integration, but rather it just makes it easier.
He stressed that there are various reasons why integration is of vital importance for the countries of the Central American region and that the fundamental reason is to make a common effort to optimize the capacity to develop a region that generates added value in different areas. for the towns.
Industrial Revolution
The Infotep director spoke about the impact of Revolution 4.0 on the labor market. He said that with the implementation of this stage, jobs have been replaced by computer agents and that this is because a large part of the jobs have been automated.
He referred to parts of The jobs that will have to adapt to Industry 4.0among whom he cited telemarketing, postmen, bank tellers, drivers, social media, accountants and stock market operators.
He stated that all industrial revolutions have had in common that they have been driven by innovative technologies that have generated a new productive framework that is more efficient, effective and disruptive.
Speaking about the four revolutions that have taken place since 1784, he said that the first was characterized by the introduction of the first steam engine and its ability to generate mechanical energy, while the second began in 1870, when electricity was introduced. and oil as the main sources of energy generation. The production chain and the concept of division of labor into tasks also appear.
Likewise, the third came in 1969 and changes began to take place in information technology and electronics, which allowed production automation.
Regarding the Fourth Revolution, he explained that it enters with the meeting of various useful technologies, creating an ecosystem of advanced, automated and interconnected production