Creating Jobs for the Youth
in Our AI Future
From Jamaica to the Global South, building 21st century employment systems.
The Global Problem → Our Local Solution
1.2 billion young people will enter the global workforce over the next decade,
Our solution: AI-enabled job creation, starting in Jamaica and replicating across the Global South.
⚠️ The Global Crisis
1.2B youth will reach working age in the next decade, while just ~420M jobs are projected.
⛓️💥 The Gap
780 million youth likely to be left behind without targeted interventions, the gap may widen if AI takes more jobs away.
💡 The Solution
AI-enabled job creation with a replicable global employment system called USE (Universal Skills Employment).
But before we can scale solutions, we must understand why today's education-to-employment systems fail to deliver — the broken pipeline that leaves millions behind.
The Broken Pipeline: Why Old Models have Failed
❌ The Problem
Traditional education-to-employment pipelines are leaking talent at every stage. Classrooms often don't teach the skills employers need, while the high cost of degrees shuts out too many.
📈 The Scale
A broken system that cannot scale for the 1.2 billion youth entering the workforce this decade. The result: massive talent waste and growing unemployment.
🔧 The Solution
Our solution builds a new model — surrounding each person with community, coaches, curriculum, campuses, careers, and capital — to empower youth with the skills they need to succeed. AI-enabled job creation with a replicable global employment system called USE (Universal Skills Employment).
To repair this broken pipeline, we've built a new system that connects skills, capital, and opportunity—ensuring every young person can move from potential to real jobs.
Our Fix
🛠️ Build Skills ✅
We assess with GQ, deliver modern curricula, and provide coaching to readiness.
🔑 Unlock Capital ✅
We fund devices, data, and training through workforce bonds and strategic partnerships.
💼 Secure Opportunities ✅
We connect talent to employer pipelines and advisors for global job placement.
Together with community, coaches, curriculum, campus, and careers, these three pillars form a cohesive system that surrounds each person, empowering cohorts at the center to thrive and scale impact globally.
This cohesive system has been designed taking into consideration the unique cultural, political, economic and demographic differences between countries around the World. A Truly Global Employment System for Job Creation.
USE: Global employment system that empowers the individual
While this journey works one cohort at a time — the core 6 pillars of the system ensure that we are continuously empowering youth, building communities, and creating jobs that scale from the local to the global level.
However, no Global System can be effective or even possible without reshaping policy.
We have therefore worked closely with other WDG.org initiatives like WDG Policy Working Group to help reshape Digital (Data, AI and Virtual Assets) Policy for the Caribbean and the World.
Enabling a Global Employment System requires reshaping global policy.
Here’s why and what we’re doing next.
Why policy reshaping is required
- 1
AI can displace tasks and jobs. Without a plan, policy must protect people while guiding adoption.
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AI will create new roles, but which ones, where, and at what pace is unclear. Policy should steer demand and reduce uncertainty.
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Skills for an AI-first economy differ from yesterday’s skills. Policy must make skills portable, proof verifiable, and hiring trusted.
What we’re doing next
State of Jobs (Current)
A data-driven snapshot of today’s digital & AI job market roles, wages, shortages, and regional demand.
Future of Jobs (AI Era)
Forecast of roles that will grow with AI, the skills they require, and pathways for students and workers.
Unified Policy (WDG)
How data sovereignty, ethical AI, and verifiable credentials convert training into cross-border jobs.
Reshaping policy for a global employment system is complex — but we have to start somewhere. That's why the World Digital Governance (WDG) initiative has been running a Policy Working Group in Jamaica for over four months, producing a formal draft framework that can serve not only Jamaica, but the entire Caribbean. This draft draws on over 600 policy documents across Data, AI, and Digital Assets, as well as lessons from successful regional efforts. It has been developed in close collaboration with the University of the West Indies, UNESCO, Jamaica's AI Task Force, and organizations such as the Caribbean Telecommunications Union.
Jamaica is already ahead of the curve — with a Data Protection Act that puts citizens at the center of digital rights, and active leadership in shaping regional AI and data policy. This is why the WDG Core Project Team is based in Jamaica, making it the natural starting point for building the Global Employment System.
Why Jamaica?
🌍 Time-Zone Advantage
Real-time collaboration with the U.S. East Coast. Full overlap in winter and strong overlap year-round makes Jamaica a seamless partner for nearshore delivery.
📚 Language & Literacy
An English-speaking, workforce-ready nation. With ~88% adult literacy (UNESCO benchmark), Jamaica ensures effective communication and scalable talent for global industries.
💼 Proven Workforce Base
Decades of experience in global services. MIIC cites a 43–50K+ strong BPO and global services workforce across dozens of firms — a backbone to build new capacity on.
🏛 Government Commitment
Digital-first national agenda. Jamaica's digital transformation strategy and National Broadband Initiative strengthen last-mile connectivity and resilience.
💵 Investment Climate
Incentives to scale sustainably. Special Economic Zone status and export-oriented incentives (JSEZA) create a favorable environment for investors and operators.
⚖️ Policy Leadership
Rights-based governance for the digital age. The Data Protection Act (2020) sets a regional precedent for citizen rights, AI governance, and data sovereignty under WDG.
Jamaica provides the foundation — but it's global economic shifts that make this the perfect moment. Remote work, nearshoring, and cost competitiveness are converging to amplify Jamaica's advantages and position it as a launchpad for AI and digital jobs.
Global Shifts Creating Jamaica's Moment
🌐 Remote Work Revolution
Hybrid & remote as the new normal
WFH Research shows remote work stabilized at 4–5× pre-2020 levels.
Gallup finds most remote-capable employees prefer hybrid/remote setups — fueling demand for nearshore talent.
🚀 Nearshoring Boom
LAC poised for $78B in new exports
The Inter-American Development Bank projects nearshoring could add $78B in exports for Latin America & the Caribbean.
With 1,600+ Global Capability Centers, India proved the model is scalable — the Caribbean can now capture time-zone aligned opportunities.
💰 Cost Competitiveness
Affordable, skilled, and culturally aligned
Deloitte benchmarks highlight major savings vs. onshore hiring with equal access to global talent.
English fluency and cultural fit reduce onboarding friction and improve service quality.
With these global shifts aligning in Jamaica's favor, the opportunity is clear: turn today's advantages into tomorrow's jobs. That's why we've set a clear timeline for scaling AI-empowered software engineering roles from the first 100 anchor jobs to 50,000 by 2030.
Job Creation Timeline
The first 100 anchor roles in AI-empowered software engineering — Jamaica's pilot national cohort.
Scaling to 1,000 anchor software engineering jobs through parish-level cohorts and expanded training pipelines.
Establishing Jamaica as a global center with 50,000 AI software engineers powering downstream industries and services.
This timeline isn't hypothetical — it's grounded in real progress from our pilot cohorts, training pipelines, and employer demand. It follows the Job Creation Strategy laid out by WDG, designed for scale and backed by ethical AI and global employment system principles.
These anchor jobs in AI software engineering are just the starting point. Each role creates ripple effects across services, startups, and communities — multiplying into far more jobs than the timeline alone suggests. That's where impact multipliers come in.
Impact Multipliers
Beyond the numbers, the impact is best told through the voices of those involved — from students to policymakers to industry leaders.
Voices that Inspire — What people are saying
"Collaborating with Intellibus on WDG, as a core member has been both rewarding and intellectually stimulating."
"Working with Intellibus on the WDG project has been an incredibly collaborative and insightful journey"
"Working with Intellibus has been a fun and energetic experience."
"Phenomenal experience working with talented individuals daily."
"Intellibus has allowed me to work on meaningful projects in the way I am comfortable."
"My time at Intellibus has been genuinely rewarding."
These voices reflect the power of collaboration and the impact already underway. Now, the next step is scaling this movement — from Jamaica to the world — and we invite you to be part of it.
From Jamaica to the World
Join us in reshaping the future of work for 1.2 billion youth.
Community voices have shown what's possible. Now it's your turn to take action — whether as an individual, policymaker, or partner organization.
"Your role in building the future of work starts here."