Question

what countries will have a hard time adapting to new automation technology based on their culture and why?

Answer 1

In my opinion developing countries having a young population & about intensive industries will take time and challenges to adapt to new automation technology. These countries include Indonesia, Mexico, India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa & Turkey.

Here are the reasons based on their culture & other factors:

• The working-age population of these countries is a major contributor to the GDP per capita and hence given the growth aspirations and effort to maintain competitive a lot of reliance will be on skills & productivity along with automation. Automation solely won't be a big contributor or a solution.
• Productivity & skill development measures are bigger to sustain such economies because of huge skill gaps and depending on labour.
• The automation might be advantageous for the business but the problem will be of policymakers.
• Due to the rich culture and years of dependence on labour, it is difficult to offer automation solutions.
• For countries like India which have weak primary and secondary education, it is a big concern to bring automation to everything even though they are still considered a major technology powerhouse.

Other cultural factors involve:

• The work in these countries is repetitive, based on routine & predictable in nature which makes the road for automation but having poor & labour intensive factors to replace it with AI & robotics will have a huge impact.
• Automation becomes difficult in such scenarios as most of these countries have a huge dependence on food production & farmers as a community don't have trust in automation to deliver results.
• Automation requires a cultural change in all organisation. Workers will have to be told about the importance of automation & how it adds to their personal productivity. This has to happen at a large level to gain acceptance with small scale & rural industries & businesses.

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