South-East Asia youth survey: skills prized over salary
(World News Science)

Kirsten Salyer, Public Engagement, +41 79 265 8773, kirsten.salyer@weforum.org · Survey of 56,000 young people in the ASEAN region reveals they want to upgrade skills to succeed in a changing job market · While ASEAN youth shows a strong desire to work in the tech sector, STEM skills (including software design and programming, data analytics and maths and science) represent three of the four weakest skills · To address these gaps, the ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020 programme under the World Economic Forum`s Digital ASEAN initiative is working to train 20 million workers in digital skills by 2020 and to provide internship and scholarship opportunities · View the full results and analysis of...