Information and communication technologies (ICT)

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The AI Workforce Consortium’s new 2025 report, ICT in Motion: The Next Wave of AI Integration, looks at 50 of the most in-demand ICT and specialized support roles. The questions we posed last year about AI’s impact are being answered, showing us not just the scale of change, but the skills required to meet it.

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What happens when AI doesn't replace jobs, but fundamentally transforms how they're performed?

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The Cisco Customer Experience guide to Smart & Sustainable Buildings

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Whether you’re just planning a career or considering a career change, here are five reasons you should include networking technology in your studies.

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This post originally appeared in Latino Leaders Magazine in December 2016. Laura joined Cisco in 1999 and currently leads the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field operations worldwide. She and her team, based in 40 countries, help shape and drive public-private partnerships to design, implement and operate strategic CSR programs in the areas of IT education and […]

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Thirty years ago a UN commission published the Maitland Report, proposing that by the early 21st century, every individual on the planet should “be within easy reach of a telephone” given the economic benefits. That was interpreted as being within a one day walk of a phone. Anyone suggesting back then that over 90% of the […]

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Seven years ago, many people (including my mother-in-law) thought I had made a career-ending decision to accept a high-risk assignment and relocate to India. My mission:  build from the ground up Cisco’s second headquarters, a Globalization Centre East in Bangalore focused on innovation, talent and partner development that envisioned 10,000 employees in three years, including […]

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I am writing this blog as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Women in Engineering Region 8 Clementina Saduwa Award named after an amazing woman whose life was cut short in 2007. On a personal level, I am extremely passionate about the possibilities that technology presents for young girls and aspiring women. As a CTO […]

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Women earn 57% of all U.S. undergraduate degrees but only 18% of undergraduate computer and information sciences degrees, according to the National Center for Women in Technology. Yet...