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In the U.S., Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
is not a widely adopted term or industry and employment
framework. Elsewhere in the world, and in organizations like
the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, ICT is much
more widely adopted.
 In
order to achieve MPICT’s mission of coordinating, improving
and promoting ICT education in its region, we need to research
and report on what ICT is in the MPICT region. Using the
globally dominant ICT framework, what are ICT industries here
and how big and important are they? What are ICT related jobs,
and how big and important is ICT employment here? What
specifically are the demands for ICT knowledge and skills in
the workplace? What are ICT related educational program
offerings? How well do ICT related educational program
offerings and workplace demands line up? What are the gaps?
MPICT Regional Partner Truckee Meadows Community College has
contributed an ICT
Workforce Study for Nevada developed by the NSF
NVITE project.
MPICT is currently pursuing these research questions for the
State of California, as the largest State in the MPICT region,
and the State with the largest and, generally, most developed
ICT industries and workforce demands. MPICT is partnering in
this California research with
Centers of
Excellence (COE), funded by the California Community
Colleges State Chancellor’s office,
Economic and
Workforce Development program. The plan for this research
involves three stages:
 1.
Phase 1 2009
ICT Environmental Scan: In May of 2009, this
effort kicked off by
engaging MPICT’s Advisory Panel, so this study would be
informed by ICT industry and business.
The Phase 1 Environmental scan effort was completed and
released free of charge in September of 2009 on the COE
website at
www.coeccc.net/ict . It introduces the ICT term and framework,
how ICT employment is spread far beyond ICT industries, and
several broad, plain language categories of ICT employment. It
set the stage for Phase 2.
 2.
Phase 2 2010 ICT Industry and
Employment Outlook: In August of 2010, the Phase 2
was
released. It
maps existing industry NAICS codes to an ICT framework and
provides secondary research on how big ICT industries are in
California. It maps existing employment SOC codes to an ICT
framework and provides secondary research on how big ICT
employment is in California and what expectations for ICT
employment growth are using existing U.S. and California
employment data sources. It also presents primary research, in
which over 600 California companies were surveyed about ICT
and broad ICT workforce needs in their organizations.
MPICT's complete version of
this report is available for download here.
A shorter
COE version of the report is available for download here. It set the stage for Phase 3.
3. Phase 3 2011
Educational Program Input: In September of 2011, the
Phase 3 study was
released. It provides:
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current labor market information from EMSI,
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real time labor market information from Wanted.com and
Monster.com,
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detailed descriptions of ICT related standard occupations
and their short term prospects,
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preliminary findings from a study of ICT related program
academic credentials at 48 of California’s community
colleges,
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structure and tools for improved communication between
education and business and industry about ICT,
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a consolidation of business and industry input from hundreds
of conversations with employers and MPICT’s Advisory Panel,
and
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recommendations for additional work to better inform
programs.
It also announces the creation of a new California Community
College (CCC) ICT Collaborative is being created to address
these and other issues in a more coordinated and comprehensive
way across the 112 campus CCC system.”
 With
the combined, 3-phase California ICT industry, employment and
community college education study and framework completed, and
any critical inputs addressed, this study should be relatively
easy for others to reproduce, and to develop for other States
in the MPICT region.
Please provide constructive input into this study at
[email protected].
MPICT and California Community College Economic and Workforce
Development Centers of Excellence have also collaborated on
other related studies:
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Mobile Media Occupations in California
In 2011, the Centers of Excellence (COE) conducted a
workforce study on the firms involved in mobile media. For
this project, mobile media was defined as the technologies
used to develop, integrate, and support mobile websites and
applications. Download the
key findings (pdf) from the employer survey. The full
environmental scan will be released soon and published at
www.coeccc.net/ict.
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Silicon Valley in Transition: Economic and Workforce
Implications in the Age of iPads, Android Apps, and the
Social Web (pdf) - July, 2011
Silicon Valley, the high-tech hub of the world, is led by
the ICT cluster. The goal of this
study is to better understand this critical cluster,
which includes firms in computers, chips, software,
networking, telecommunications, and the Internet, and to
develop recommendations for job seekers, workforce
development organizations, and business and community
leaders. This study was conducted for four Workforce
Investment Boards (WIBs) in the greater Silicon Valley
region: NOVA
(Sunnyvale),
work2future (San Jose),
San Mateo County and
Santa
Cruz County.
Study results hosted by NOVA include:
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Emerging Trends in Mobile Media (pdf) - May, 2011
Mobile access to the Internet exceeded desktop access for
the first time in 2008. Information Technology professionals
expect software application development for mobile devices
will surpass all other platforms by 2015.
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ICT: Advancing Digital Literacy in the Greater Sacramento
Region (pdf) - March, 2011
In the Greater Sacramento Region, the ICT sector is expected
to grow by 11% in the next five years, expanding by as many
as 4,500 jobs.
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