Knowledge Management and E-Learning

30  ◾  Catherine Lord

Historically, countries that have had a higher percentage of post-secondary

education have had an advantage in weathering skill shortages, but with increased

urbanization and migration we are likely to see this gap narrowing. One exercise is

to superimpose the average number of years of education over the urban growth rates

and we can see this gap may be just over 2 years apart between our two G-20 groups,

or hardly enough to claim a significant advantage going forward. Either way, with

lifelong learning coming into vogue coupled with the fact that many jobs can be now

be outsourced (Friedman, 2005, 2006, 2007) or expatriated, there is an increasing

decoupling of citizenship and delivery of labor. is is also ev