"A Banksy painting depicting a young boy playing with a superhero nurse doll has raised more than £16m for an NHS charity after being sold at auction.Game Changer, by the anonymous graffiti artist, appeared in a foyer at Southampton General Hospital during the first wave of the pandemic."MORE > https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-56497104
REEJIG is the world's workforce intelligence platform created by Siobhan Savage in Australia. It helps answer the important questions > What capability currently exists within my organisation? What skills do we need to bring in? Do we have any transferable skills or skills adjacencies we can leverage? How can we embed mobility into our strategy? What does my total talent marketplace look like? What career paths are available to my employees?MORE > https://reejig.com/
"As part of the new initiative which spans multiple government agencies, the Departments of the Interior, Energy and Commerce committed to a shared goal of generating 30 gigawatts of offshore wind in the US by 2030. This target will lead to employing more than 44,000 workers in offshore wind by 2030 and nearly 33,000 additional jobs in communities supported by offshore wind activity, according to a government fact sheet."MORE> https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/29/politics/offshore-wind-energy-biden-announcement/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_co
"Perhaps the government should consider a separate technology fund, established outside normal portfolio lines, to reduce technical debt, focus on digital uplift, allow coherent security practices across portfolios, and build and manage the underlying sovereign technology asset base for government. A separate funding mechanism or entity could offer scope to innovate and to build the cadre of skilled engineers and social scientists needed to generate those public goods that only the government is well placed to offer."MORE > https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/government-must-rethink-funding-model-to-support-technology-in-australias-public-sector/The NSW Government has already made many of these change
From Square Peg | "With work from home, it’s getting really hard to differentiate on culture. If you don’t differentiate on culture, then compensation becomes your primary lever for attracting talent, which tech has historically not done. So much of culture was created via in-person things - lunch, breakout spaces, happy hours etc. So the challenge is how you create culture in a hybrid/WFH workforce."MORE > https://www.squarepegcap.com/blog/culture-as-a-service-the-new-300b-industry
