NOOTV and Economic Revitalization
NOOTV (Asia) is part of an effort to position the Philippines as a Knowledge Management partner – content creation, data mining and maintenance, jobs creation and economic revitalization, convergent media and mobile technology – in 2 initial industry segments: Healthcare and Government.
For International Women’s Day, NOOTV and H2O is creating the initiati’ve campaign. It will develop pilot communities to help women (1) create jobs for themselves using a technology inter-face to connect under-represented markets onto a global network, (2) provide a launch pad for a comprehensive Health Information Management community that develops profit centers for partner corporations also designed to increase access of pilot participaants to health professionals, and ultimately (3) support education and security initiatives of various governmental and industry stake-holders to prevent further instability in highly volatile markets with the worsening of economic conditions.
”Think job losses won’t get worse? Think again”
Some forecasters say jobless rate may rise through 2010 to 10 percent
Source: MSNBC, 03/09/09
Bad as Friday’s grim jobs report was – 8.1 percent unemployment rate, 651,000 jobs lost in February, 4.4 million shed since the recession began – the labor market’s pain is likely to continue until well into 2010.
Wall Street economists, who are not typically paid to see the glass half-empty, warn that more bad news is coming in the months ahead.
“The economy is in a tailspin. Businesses are jettisoning jobs at an unprecedented pace,” said Richard Yamarone, economist at Argus Research.
“The labor market remains in free-fall,” said Nigel Gault Chief US Economist IHS Global Insight. “The recession is deepening; there is no sign yet even that the rate of contraction is slowing.”
“Horrendous! There can be no other word to describe this employment report,” said Ryding. “Unfortunately, the weekly jobless claims data suggest more of the same is coming for March.
Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost 4.4 million jobs, more than half of which occurred in the past four months. That brings the total to 12.5 million full-time jobs and the official unemployment rate to 8.1 percent.
Another 8.6 million have been forced to work part time for “economic reasons” as employer cut back hours to cut costs. The number of so-called “discouraged workers” – those who are out of work and have given up looking for a job – has more than doubled since last year. When those two groups are included, the jobless rate jumped by almost a full percentage point this month to 14.8 percent.
TEXAS – 2008
H2O alongside its media and technology partners developed a Communication Outreach and Product Development program for the Texas Department of Health Services and over 10 public health agencies. The revolutionary eLearning and Web Training-Development effort is an easy-to-use and cost-efficient solution to the challenge of distance based learning and computer-based training (CBT). Current-day CBT efforts by other organizations is demonstrative of out-dated, hard-to-adopt software-based interface when people are now used to the dynamic media elements of YouTube(TM) and Facebook(TM).
ResponseInitiative.com, developed by FUSION360 and H2O, is the next evolution of eLearning that allows client organizations and users alike to pick the sessions that best meets their informationand training needs. Through ResponseInitiative.com, our Texas agency clients eliminate travel costs and conveniently receives critical guidance on topics such as emergency preparedness, disease detection and surveillance while expanding its user and volunteer base in a dynamic, current-day media platform.
