An Education Needs Assessment of CARIFORUM Firms

the desk research where repeated mention was made about the lack of skills in software

development and engineering, programming, UI and UX design, multimedia development skills,

cybersecurity, information and database management, data protection and FinTech regulation

(Cowen et al. 2022; Belize Chamber of Commerce and International Labour Organization 2018;

Schoolderman, Bicer, and Valencia 2017).

Figure 8: : % of businesses with online operations

Are there any aspects of your business operations online?

33%

67%

Yes No

Figure 9: Digital skills training needs

What specific digital skills training does your business most require? (Select only those that apply)

Other (please specify)

4.27%

Video production

39.32%

83.76%

Digital Marketing

Software and mobile app development

35.04%

Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality

11.11%

Artificial intelligence & machine learning

12.82%

Data science and big data

22.22%

Cloud Computing

13.68%

Blockchain

9.40%

Cybersecurity

25.64%

FinTech

12.82%

Coding

12.82%

User Interface (UI)/User Experience(UX) design

25.64%

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