Centering Humanity Within Digital Wellbeing: Using Our Ubuntu Values to Tell Our Story
摘要
As the world of work is now embracing technology as a critical source for responding to the demands and needs of everchanging development and markets, it has become crucial to also invest into the biggest asset which is the wellbeing of employees. Various technological advancement tools are also now being used to facilitate a more coherent and immediate response to the psychosocial needs of employees. The opposite side of this could be the loss of the humanness (Ubuntu) as a critical driver to enhance humanity through technology. The Ubuntu-value also known as human-centred approach to health and wellbeing place the human in the centre of the broader community and societal wellbeing and let everyone play their part towards the collective conscious and experience towards the Planet Health (people-animal-planet). An African proverb say “feta kgomo o sware motho” meaning a human being is important and can never be overlooked.