Vietnam IT Industry Value 2002-2006 (Million USD)

Table 2.6: Subscriber and user development 2003-2007 (according to VNNIC)

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May 2006

Source: Vietnam IT Panorama 2007, Ho Chi Minh City Information Technology Association

With such a growth rate, the demand for IT human resources is really urgent.

necessary. To have further development, the IT industry is in need of a lot of talent. To have more talent will largely depend on the training of human resources of the industry.

3.1.2 Basic views

Developing human resources for information technology (including human resources working in telecommunications enterprises, information technology industrial enterprises; human resources for information technology applications; human resources for training in information technology, electronics, telecommunications and people using information technology applications) is a key factor that has decisive significance for the application and development of information technology. Developing human resources for information technology must ensure quality, synchronization, and rapid structural transformation towards rapidly increasing the proportion of highly qualified human resources and enhancing national information technology capacity.

Developing human resources in information technology must be closely linked to the process of innovation in education and training, especially innovation in university education. Fundamentally and comprehensively innovate the training of human resources in information technology towards integration and achieving international standards, creating fundamental changes in training quality, meeting the requirements of information technology development to serve the cause of industrialization, modernization of the country and international economic integration.

Promote socialization and enhance international cooperation in training IT human resources, promote all domestic resources and mobilize foreign resources for IT human resource development.

Strongly develop IT human resources, ensure sufficient human resources to serve the needs of application and development of information technology, build a knowledge-based economy and society.

information, meeting the requirements of the country's industrialization and modernization and providing information technology human resources for the international labor market.

Modernize, improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the IT human resource training system, raise the level of IT human resource training in our country to reach international standards and participate in the international human resource training market. Gradually become one of the countries providing high-quality IT human resources for countries in the region and the world.

Promote human resource training for application and development of information technology to serve national defense, security and protection of the Fatherland.

Strengthen the building of teaching staff, improve the quality and quantity of IT, electronics, telecommunications lecturers in universities, colleges, vocational secondary schools and vocational training institutions. By 2015, at the university and college level, ensure that there is 1 IT lecturer for every 15 students; 70% of university lecturers and over 50% of college lecturers have a master's degree or higher, over 50% of university lecturers and at least 10% of college lecturers have a doctorate. By 2020, over 90% of university lecturers and over 70% of college lecturers have a master's degree or higher, over 75% of university lecturers and at least 20% of college lecturers have a doctorate.

Create a breakthrough in training quality. Strive to have university-level training in information technology, electronics, and telecommunications reach the advanced level in the ASEAN region by 2015; 80% of students in information technology, electronics, and telecommunications graduating from domestic universities have sufficient professional and foreign language skills to participate in the international labor market. By 2020, training in information technology, electronics, and telecommunications at many universities will reach international standards; 90% of students in information technology, electronics, and telecommunications graduating from universities will have sufficient professional and foreign language skills to participate in the international labor market.

Strengthen training, fostering, and building a team of IT teachers for general education institutions. By 2015, all high school and middle school students and 80% of primary school students will learn IT. Ensure IT is taught to 100% of students in general education institutions.

2020. Promote the application of IT in education and training. By 2015, 100% of teachers at all levels can use IT applications to support teaching.

Promote human resource training to meet the development needs of enterprises in the field of information technology and communications. From now until 2015, provide these enterprises with 250,000 people with expertise in information technology, electronics, and telecommunications. Of these, 50% have college or university degrees and 5% have a Master's degree or higher.

Strengthening human resource training for information technology application. From now until 2015, providing enterprises, state management agencies, socio-political organizations, research facilities, hospitals, etc. with 530,000 specialized information technology staff with college degrees or equivalent or higher.

Continuously improve knowledge and skills in using IT applications for the whole society. By 2015, all cadres, civil servants, and public employees at all levels, 100% of medical staff, 80% of employees in enterprises, and over 50% of the population will be able to use IT applications. Ministries, branches, provinces, and centrally run cities will have IT directors who are trained according to State regulations. By 2020, 90% of employees in enterprises and over 70% of the population will be able to use IT applications.

3.2 Key solutions to promote training of IT human resources in the coming time

3.2.1 Expanding information technology human resource training channels

- Increase the number of students in formal training schools

We are lacking high-quality human resources, but even more lacking IT "workers". "Socialize" the issue of training IT human resources, focus on compensating for the shortage of human resources below university level, and innovate in the long term thinking of training high-quality human resources. Create conditions for the establishment of vocational colleges and vocational universities. The process of expanding training will entail the need to issue quality standards early, as well as requiring changes in mechanisms.

- Encourage organizations and individuals from all economic sectors,

Foreign IT experts participate in training IT human resources, encourage investment in private universities and colleges specializing in IT.

There should be a more open and flexible policy in establishing IT training schools to mobilize maximum resources from the State, businesses and society to invest in this field. It is necessary to allow schools more initiative, autonomy and self-responsibility in issues such as quotas, admission methods, programs, textbooks and tuition fees.

- Promote CIO training from low to high levels to be compatible with the CIO generation of AFTA, APEC, WTO... CIO training needs to ensure 4 conditions: the ability to search and collect information, have an understanding of information technology, grasp and master information, and have the ability to reason based on information to make decisions. CIO training can focus on two directions: IT experts learn about state management, those who are undertaking state management functions learn about IT. The source of CIO training needs to come from the businesses themselves, that is, engineers from other industries, when trained in IT, understand the nature of IT and have existing professional knowledge, they will be successful leaders.

- Support and promote the informal training model. This system has contributed significantly to the training of IT human resources. However, the training certificates have not been recognized by the State. This causes disadvantages for graduates of these centers when they work in enterprises and State agencies. The State needs to study and promulgate policies to recognize the equivalence between the certificates of these training centers and the degrees in the formal training system. It is necessary to develop a program and organize an exam to grant a practical college degree (no need to study, just pass the exam to be granted a degree). Universities should also study to connect with high-quality centers for training.

- Strengthening IT training for other industries: Our basic IT programs are generally only at a fairly simple level, with little practice time, and students have almost no practical skills. IT programs for majors are much more difficult, except for a few specific engineering industries, the vast majority of these programs have not been systematically developed. We

There is almost no IT training program for many majors: economics, education, social sciences and humanities. Therefore, it is necessary to further increase the duration of IT subjects for students. The IT program for each major needs to be carefully designed according to the characteristics of each major. Strongly deploy training for some new majors such as "economic information systems", medical-informatics, bio-informatics, chemistry-informatics... c) Training 2 degrees in IT for graduates from other majors. In fact, through the framework program built since 2003, some majors such as mechanics, electricity-electronics... have partly demonstrated the idea of ​​increasing the content of IT knowledge and skills and in the framework program system there are also some new majors such as "economic information systems", but in general, most of the programs have too little IT content.

- Promote short-term training courses to update knowledge. These training courses play a very important role in developing IT human resources. For IT experts: project administrators, design experts, building comprehensive solutions and marketing forces in the Hightech field can only be trained through work experience, along with short-term training courses. However, the scale of these courses is still limited. The cost of participation is often quite high, while many businesses and managers have not yet fully realized the importance and benefits of this investment. There is a need for propaganda measures to further promote the organization of these training courses. The State needs to have a support mechanism to reduce costs, and needs to promote short-term training courses to improve qualifications and update professional knowledge for IT human resources.

3.2.3 Strengthening IT human resource training according to international standards

- Schools need to increase investment in IT infrastructure, teaching equipment, especially high-quality computer systems.

It is necessary to equip electronic learning facilities, modern network infrastructure, broadband Internet connection for all universities to create more opportunities for students to go online to collect documents, become more familiar with e-commerce and students may have to be free or only have to pay a certain fee; ensure the ratio of students