Work Around the World

John Zogby, pollster and co-author of The First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing Our First Millennial Generation, has proposed formation of a Technology Corps, along the lines of the Peace Corps formed by the Kennedy Administration. Like Doctors Without Borders, such an International Technology Corps could even include experts from a variety of countries.

     Since Zogby's polls have uncovered a craving for technology training, mentoring, internships, and practical experience by young people throughout the world, he sees an opportunity for mobile, tech-savvy cohorts to see the world and help provide their new contacts with a business profession at the same time.

     In England, without waiting for an International Technology Corps to take off, the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (mosi) sponsors "iTech: design your future," an event that inspires students at a young age to begin thinking about careers that involve creative, digital, and other modern technologies. Information about the event is available from ambassadors@mosi.org.uk.

     Students aged 13 to 18, who already know a thing or two about what technology can do, might like to enter this year's Google Science Fair by going to googlesciencefair.com. Submissions are due by May 12, 2014.

    For other ideas about job opportunities around the world, see the earlier blog post, "What Do You Want to Be?"