Vietnam, Australia step up ICT training cooperation
Hanoi (VNA) – The Australian government is willing to cooperate and share experience with Vietnam in seeking effective measures to adapt to the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), said an Australian official.
Yvonne Chan, Australian Deputy Consul General to Ho Chi Minh City and Senior Trade Commissioner of the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), was speaking at a seminar on Vietnam-Australia cooperation
in information and communication technology (ICT) training in Hanoi on May 16.
The event, co-held by Austrade and the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications, created a forum for universities, research organisations and
companies of Vietnam and Australia to exchange training experience and seek
collaboration opportunities.
She expressed her belief that with the presence of leading IT experts from both
countries, the seminar would see numerous IT development initiatives and
solutions proposed and many partnerships formed between Vietnamese and
Australian organisations.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam said the Vietnamese
Party and State define ICT as an important part of infrastructure and an
effective tool to create a new development mode and a momentum for boosting the
knowledge-based economy and improving the national competitiveness in the
international economic integration.
At present, Vietnam has 250 universities and colleges, plus 164 vocational
training schools providing ICT training, with about 86,000 students.
However, the ICT human resources training quality needs to be improved quickly
amid the fourth Industrial Revolution. Vietnam’s relevant agencies are actively
seeking measures to raise training quality in the field in order to create a
new generation of workers with good knowledge and skills that can adapt to
changes in the digital economic era, he said.
He expressed his wish that participating experts would clarify great challenges
Vietnam is facing in ICT human resources development amidst the impacts of
Industry 4.0.
At the seminar, participants discussed the impacts of Industry 4.0 on ICT human
resources development in Vietnam, ICT training demands, priorities and
challenges of Vietnam, and innovative solutions to human resources quality
improvement in the digital era in Vietnam.-VNA