{"id":1031,"date":"2021-12-02T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jobtechalliance.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2024-03-18T06:32:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T06:32:50","slug":"what-does-the-jobtech-stack-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.jobtechalliance.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/what-does-the-jobtech-stack-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the jobtech stack look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” admin_label=”Blog” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_color=”#f6f8fa” custom_margin=”0px||0px||true|false” custom_margin_tablet=”” custom_margin_phone=”” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” custom_padding_tablet=”||100px||false|false” custom_padding_phone=”100px||100px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Authors: Timothy Asiimwe<\/a> & Chris Maclay<\/a><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Ecosystem infrastructure? Ecosystem stack?<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

While getting feedback on the Jobtech Alliance strategy, we spoke with many fascinating and impressive ecosystem builders. Karan Chopra, founder of <\/span>Opportunity @ Work<\/span><\/a> (a social enterprise which aims to \u2018re-wire the U.S. labor market\u2019) and Advisor at Google\u2019s moonshot X department, explained that one of the things we should consider is what the technological infrastructure might be, which catalyses more successful and impactful jobtech on the continent?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently, we were listening to <\/span>The Flip<\/span><\/a> podcast, where host Justin Norman talked about IndiaStack – the infrastructure (much like Chopra asked) which the Indian government built to catalyse the development of financial products and enhance financial inclusion. IndiaStack defines itself as \u201ca set of APIs that allows governments, businesses, startups and developers to utilise an unique digital Infrastructure to solve India\u2019s hard problems towards presence-less, paperless, and cashless service delivery.\u201d If has four components:<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/jobtechalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/India-Stack.jpg” title_text=”India Stack” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

In the podcast, Norman asks what the Africa Stack might look like to catalyse the growth of fintech and enhance financial inclusion on the continent. Moving back to Chopra\u2019s question to us, we realise that the question we as a community need to answer is: what does the Jobtech Stack look like?<\/span><\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

Is the jobtech stack really feasible?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

What could a jobtech stack realistically achieve? With the right infrastructure, a stack of digital assets built for the jobtech sctor could feasibly help make jobtech solutions:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. more viable and scalable by reducing operational and financial costs\/barriers to entry<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. more inclusive by reducing barriers to access<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. more impactful by enhancing services, giving jobseekers more control and use of their data, reducing costs and more<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. probably more things we haven\u2019t thought about<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Efforts have been made in adjacent sectors and internationally to work on comparable \u2018stacks\u2019 (just to be clear, the term doesn\u2019t have any more than metaphorical relevance to <\/span>Sayo Folawiyo\u2019s recent Jobtech Alliance blog post about taking a \u2018full stack approach to jobtech\u2019<\/span><\/a>). One of the best examples of the attempt to build a foundational stack which enhances inclusivity of an emerging sector comes from the financial inclusion space, where Google, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Coil, Modusbox and others, collaborated to build Mojaloop, and open-source platform which seeks to enhanced interoperability in payments systems to enable digital financial services for all.<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/jobtechalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mojaloop.jpg” title_text=”mojaloop” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”custom” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”2em” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Montserrat|800|||||||” header_2_font_size=”30px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” header_3_font=”||||||||” header_4_font=”||||||||” max_width_tablet=”700px” max_width_phone=”700px” max_width_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_margin=”|||” custom_margin_tablet=”|0px||” custom_margin_phone=”|0px||” custom_margin_last_edited=”off|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” header_2_font_size_phone=”20px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” border_color_all=”#12eaa6″ border_color_top=”#c8102e” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

    Similarly, <\/span>Farmstack<\/span><\/a> is an attempt to provide open-source software for trusted data exchange in the Agriculture space.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/span>In the jobtech world, there are a number of global examples of attempts to build individual pieces of the jobtech stack. In Sweden, the Ministry of Labour has a department called <\/span>JobTech Development<\/span><\/a> which provides APIs, datasets, standards and open source code for jobtech solution builders. They have also been exploring the possibility of building a <\/span>Digital Backpack<\/span><\/a> which enables gig workers to port their professional identity between different platforms. Similarly, a pilot with six platforms in the Netherlands (through <\/span>GigCV<\/span><\/a>) aims to provide an open standard for platform workers to download and transfer their reputation data between platforms. Also connected, efforts are being made by the International Council on Badges and Credentials <\/span>to create standards<\/span><\/a> in credentials for workforce development which could be used by jobtech platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    While many of the examples above were built by governments, non-profits, or as open-source projects, jobtech stack solutions could feasibly come in a range of different forms:<\/span><\/p>\n