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Firms help to improve IT human resources in Vietnam

Representatives from 100 businesses and non-traditional education and training units signed a commitment to provide training for human resources in the digital revolution in Vietnam.
Firms help to improve IT human resources in Vietnam ảnh 1 Nearly 200 businesses participate in an online conference discussing human resource development for the IT sector. (Photo courtesy of FUNiX)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Representatives from 100 businesses andnon-traditional education and training units signed a commitment to providetraining for human resources in the digital revolution in Vietnam.

Nguyen Thanh Nam, Founder of FUNiX, told an online conference last week thatthe annual demand for information and technology (IT) jobs has increased up to47 percent in the past few years. However, the current IT training units meetonly 40 percent of demand. The cooperation between businesses and non-traditionaleducation and training units would be the right way to ensure the IT humanresources supply.

Dinh Anh Huan, chairman of Seedcom, said Vietnamese IT engineers have theability to work in all countries around the world. Experts said Vietnam hasopportunities to compete in the world market in IT sectors that have potentialsuch as mobile gaming, blockchain, internet of things (IoT) and artificialintelligence (AI). The country could become a centre to provide high quality IThuman resources for the world.

Nguyen Duc Tai, CEO of Lumi smart house, believed that Vietnam’s IoT products,especially in the smart house area could compete with big firms from China.

Pham Quan, CEO of Onesoft, said Vietnam has a certain position in the gameprogramming industry with some game studios in the Top 15 worldwide. Five outof 10 leading game studios in Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific belong toVietnamese people.

Tran Viet Hung, founder of STEAM for Vietnam, said providing IT training foryoung people would help build a firm supply of human resources for the future.STEAM for Vietnam has organised classes with 5,000 pupils a day to teach IT forVietnamese children nationwide.

“We expect to cooperate with businesses to mobilise a big force of humanresources for the IT sector,” said Le Minh Duc, managing director of FUNiX./.
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