A changing world of work requires new approaches to the development of occupational frameworks, and the need for The need for a Sustainable World an opportunity to make SDGs an integral part of those frameworks. The REPAIR (innovative) approach is twofold:
- apply the lessons learned from modern mapping techniques to create lively occupational/practice/competency maps
- make the reflexion on SDGs an integral part of the process to create forward looking occupational/practice/competency maps
If we look at road maps, Google Maps and Open Street Maps have very little in common with yesterday’s paper maps. “I honestly think we’re seeing a more profound change, for map-making, than the switch from manuscript to print in the Renaissance,” University of London cartographic historian Jerry Brotton told the Sydney Morning Herald. ”That was huge. But this is bigger.” No such things could be said from the way we are building competency and qualification frameworks. If we look at competency frameworks as “competency maps” describing an occupational “territory”, the process and technologies used for establishing those maps have not changed much since the 50’s. Digital maps are being established by the collection of data provided directly by the users, their navigation systems and other sensors. It is about harnessing the crowd’s intelligence through feedback loops: the map is created/updated by using the map itself. The old process of building maps from aerial photography and drawing boards has been supplanted by the capture of real time information. The digital map is both the outcome of a process (using it) and the enabler of this process.