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Why a Humanity Hub establish for?
The Hong Kong Humanity Hub is one of several global mega-projects designed to build a completely new category of local economies to prepare young people in human capital development focusing on the social skills (soft skills) to better face a future world of increasing isolation, unemployment, and mental distress due to social media, smartphones and AI.
The “big picture” existential threat is
What are we going to do with 8 billion people when most jobs are taken over by AI?
Experts are overwhelmingly agreeing that there needs to be a massive re-adjustment in education where the focus in not solely on traditional hard skills such as math and science, but also the soft skills such as human connections, empathy, creativity. This is because when AI can do math and science better than humans, the value of IQ (intelligence quotient) diminishes, whereas the ability to relate to each others, to collaborate in teams, and to self-reflect, or EQ (emotional quotient), becomes critical.
The necessity of World Civility Index (WCI)
Hence the emergence of a new measurement standard called the World Civility Index
Why World Civility Index instead of just EQ?
EQ and other tools such as Big Five (OCEAN) Personality Agreeableness, 360 Feedback/Multi-Rater Assessments, Behavioral Simulation/Situational Judgement Tests (SJT) offer a snapshot measurement; an instance of where a person stands at the moment. However, they do not measure the on-going effort a person puts into self-improvement.
WCI, on the other hand, allowing users to accumulate points on a daily basis by
reading articles
watching videos
or attending activities such as webinars, lectures, discussion groups
These credentials can be shown to future employers during interviews with HR managers
The Hong Kong Blueprint: How a Hub Works
A Hub is a catalyst for local economic growth. In order to create the content and activities relevant for different geographical, cultural and economic locations, each hub is to create its unique, sustainable ecosystem, with a complete cycle of government, NGOs, academia, training companies, AI content companies, event coordinators, marketers, and investors.
In Hong Kong
IITTI collaborates with local NGO partner, ITEC
https://iteducationcenter.mydurable.com
to serve as the point-of-contact. The Hong Kong Government mobilizes local companies to market to mainland China, specifically the southern China “Greater Bay Area” (GBA) with 80 million people, where export-facing companies can send employees to Hong Kong for in-person training on intercultural awareness, international business etiquette and professional image. For long-term cultivation, these employees can access the IITTI-ITEC online content.
All training, both in-person and online, allows participants to earn World Civility Index points as proof.
The benefits for export companies
Not only do these companies gain better employees, but HR managers can use the WCI credential standard for internal performance evaluation, and as preferential interview screening for job-applicants, building a higher-quality pipeline of “new blood”.
Some people call this “employer’s branding”
What’s more significant is the tremendous boost in business competitiveness for an export-oriented company when it can boast about employees having this kind of “globalization education” which helps in winning business contracts, joint-ventures, sales.
For companies that are setting up overseas branches, they can even use the WCI credential for recruiting foreign talents, further gaining a competitive advantage in building a high-quality talent pipeline.
The geopolitical advantage
The world is increasingly divided along the line of the US and China. Take 6G as an example. There is a heated war of the China standard vs the US standard.
To recruit foreign employees overseas for a Chinese company using a Chinese credential system would be difficult. Likewise for a US company. But the World Civility Index is universal; it can be used across such geopolitical divide, transcending national standards.
The benefits for young people
Beyond having a competitive edge in the job market, and the spill-over effect of better social adjustment, physical and mental wellness, such soft skills cultivation together with the WCI proof has anecdotally been reported to stand out in social setting, such as online dating!
The benefits for local economies
This creates an entirely new category of business, with sustainable training companies and AI-assisted content-creation companies, mobilizing talented academia, trainers, marketers. The financial benefit stems from circulating revenues from the consumers (students and employees) to the commercial companies, with possible IPOs (initial public offerings) and all the way back to the VCs (venture capitalists) as return on investment.
Answering the “big picture” question: meaning and purpose
Some of the more advanced training covers beyond the rudimentary dining etiquette and dress code, but delves into spirituality, care for others, creativity.
For example, it encourages young people to take up new types of careers in mending social fabric (e.g. “sanatrix” and “praxis” that are actively being co-designed by IITTI with collaborative groups such as MIT Presencing Institute and Harvard Inner Development Goals).
The key is that such new kind of professions addresses the need for young people in finding meaning and purpose in an AI-dominated, post-labour world.
(Sanatrix and praxis are two of the exciting new careers that are already seeing signs of vast demands. They are beyond the scope of this message, but can be elaborated in the future.)
How GPLT can take advantage
GPLT is uniquely positioned to drive this movement globally
We propose that GPLT become the global anchor for the Humanity Hub initiative. Specifically, GPLT can:
- Act as Point-of-Contact Serve as the local contact in various regions (like ITEC’s role in Hong Kong) to formally introduce the Hub concept to local governments, major corporations, and academic institutions.
- Mobilize Expertise: Leverage your vast pool of global experts to offer specialty programs and activities that are localized and relevant to different cultures, immediately mapping to the WCI rubrics.
- Advocate: Mobilize communication volunteers to raise awareness among policymakers and business leaders about the urgent necessity of pivoting education toward soft skills and the WCI.
- Replication Playbook: Share a replication playbook across regions (governance template, partner roles, funding options, and KPI framework).
By partnering with IITTI, GPLT can further establish itself at the forefront of the global human capital development movement, helping to shape local economies and prepare young people for a dramatically shifting future.
Expression to know
NGO
Non-governmental organization
Its very interesting to me. Humbled to be part of you.
Thanks, Matiba, Hope you the best, we will make event for more details with Patrick Chun, The Founder of IITTI, hope you are there.