Vietnam urged to stick to technological changes of Industry 4.0
VOV.VN - The biggest challenge on the horizon caused by the Fourth Industrial Revolution is how people are able to keep pace with the trend of technological changes, said Nguyen Manh Hung, Minister of Information and Communications at the Digital ASEAN Workshop held recently by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Hanoi.
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| Nguyen Manh Hung, Minister of Information and Communication delivers a speech at the Digital ASEAN Workshop |
He underlined the importance of Industry 4.0 in changing the day to day lives of people and called for increased training in both technology and soft skills to stay abreast of current trends.
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| Delegates at the event |
Major businesses including FPT, Grab, Microsoft, Google, and VNG, have all committed to participating in the initiative of the ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020 as well as co-operating with WEF's program.
Joint effort will see the training of 20 million workers, the setting up of a scholarship fund of US$2 million for students to study technology, and generating jobs for more than 200,000 digital technology workers in SMEs throughout Southeast Asia.
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| Chairman and CEO of VNG Group Le Hong Minh |
The VNG Chairman also expressed a keen interest in training skills among young interns, adding that the biggest hurdle is keeping up with demand by having sufficient numbers of trainers who play a crucial role in designing learning programs.
During the discussion, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh said FPT pledges to become a vanguard company in the digital transformation. At present, FPT plans to create more jobs, train digital skills for more than 50,000 people, build and develop universities for thousands of students, and pay close attention to training them with new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.
The company is about to organise internship programs for some 5,000 students annually, not only in Vietnam, but also in regional countries, he added.
