Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale. This kind of attack threatens our National Security interests by violating wellestablished International Norms against the use of chemical weapons, by further threatening friends and allies of ours in the region, like israel and turkey and jordan, and it increases the risk that chemical weapons will be used in the future and fall into the hands of terrorists who might use them agai
Displaced by automation and outsourcing. And for too long, big promises have the power of training and retraining havent delivered like they should. It doesnt help anybody to be trained for a job that doesnt exist. So heres what were going to do. We will support highquality Union Training programs. We will propose we will propose new tax credits to encourage more companies to offer paid apprenticeships that let you earn while you learn. We will do more, including a National Campaign to dignify skills training across the board. I think weve got to reverse what has become a kind of common place view, which is Everybody Needs to go to college. Well, in fact, more than half of the jobs that are going to be available in 2020 do not require a college fouryear degree. So for welders and machinists and tool and die makers and health technicians, and coders and so many others, lets get the word out, there are really good jobs for people right now, and there will be more in the future if you get
Hello and welcome to the d w debate of the World Economic forum to our viewers watching us from home were coming to you from the most visited city in Africa Cape Town my name is edith cumani now according to u. N. Figures by the year 2050 every 2 out of 4 people will be african thats quite staggering when you think about it does that then mean that if the population is going to quadruple here that our data will also quadruple and what does that mean for the future of data on the continent this morning were asking the question is data africas new oil and im going to be helped to answer that by my Student Panel and im going to be introducing that now im joined by sue. Im a carrier on my extreme right to the head of geospatial technologies and the cofounder of have to analytics based in kenya but also joined by mr alex q who is the managing partner and chairman at 80 kearney if youve been to the World Economic forum a few times you might have seen his face on my right my immediate right i
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