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OECD Going Digital Summit 2019

Stefan Winzenried, CEO and founder of JANZZ.technology is honored to take part in the OECD Going Digital Summit in Paris. Together with high-level policy makers and key stakeholders, the summit will bring in-depth knowledge, exchange views and share practices in the digital transformation for growth and well-being. Agenda of the two-day summit includes strategies for digital transformation, job in the digital age, education and skills for the digital age, realizing the potential of new digital technologies and more.  » Read more about: OECD Going Digital Summit 2019  »

The world’s most homogeneous society is opening new doors

Japanese society, one of the world’s oldest and most homogeneous, is about to change. In December 2018, Japan’s parliament passed an immigration bill that is intended to boost the economy and to tackle the country’s labor shortage.
More precisely, the law is designed to attract foreign “semiskilled workers.” These workers are to be employed in various industries, among others, construction, the hotel industry, agriculture and nursing care; in the latter case, shortages are most acute. Despite some protests from oppositional parties,  » Read more about: The world’s most homogeneous society is opening new doors  »

Ontology and taxonomy – stop comparing things that are incomparable

To many people, the word ‘ontology’ might sound abstract. It has its origin in Tim Berners-Lee’s dream of inventing the World Wide Web. This dream included the Web becoming capable of defining a so-called ‘Semantic Web’ by analyzing all Web data, including content, links and computer-person transaction. In the Semantic Web, the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) have been established as standard formats for sharing and integrating both data and knowledge—the latter in the form of rich conceptual schemes called ontologies.  » Read more about: Ontology and taxonomy – stop comparing things that are incomparable  »

CEO of JANZZ.technology presented at the World Bank

January 22.2019, Washington: Stefan Winzenried, CEO of JANZZ.technology, presented on January 22, 2019 for the Labor Global Solutions Group at the World Bank in Washington the comprehensive features and the huge potential of powerful matching systems for different labor markets today and after the digital transformation.  » Read more about: CEO of JANZZ.technology presented at the World Bank  »

The Silver Workforce

In Japan, one person in five is 70 or older. According to last year’s data of the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, 26.48 million people are 70 or older, which accounts for 20.7% of the total population [1]. If you go to Japan, you will see many senior citizens still working in the shops or running around the streets in suits. There, the term “elderly” has been redefined. In fact, a group of academic societies suggested only considering people “elderly” as of age 75 and people from age 65 to 74 as “semi-elderly” who can actively contribute to society [2].  » Read more about: The Silver Workforce  »