Under the 13th Party Congress Resolution, Vietnam’s digital economy would make up 20 percent of GDP in 2021-2025.
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Meanwhile, the Politburo’s Resolution No52 on Vietnam’s participation on the fourth industrial revolution says Vietnam’s digital economy would account for 30 percent of GDP by 2030.
According to Google and Temasek, Vietnam has the fastest growing digital economy in Southeast Asia in 2022-2023, with e-commerce growth rate of 11 percent, digital economic tourism 82 percent, and digital payment 19 percent.
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has estimated that athe digital economy contributed 16.5 percent to GDP in 2023.
Dinh Thi Nga, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, emphasized two factors – improving digital skills and upgrading the workforce quality – as the most important solutions to develop digital economy in Vietnam.
“High-quality workforce is the key factor to attract foreign investment to Vietnam’s digital economy,†Nga said.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the number of IT qualified workers in ministries, branches and localities is 50 percent higher than the quota allocated to them. In 2021, for example, 10,865 IT qualified workers were used, while the quota was 5,426. The figures were 11,253 vs 5,568 in 2022 and 14, 682 vs 6,215 in 2023.
MIC predicted that Vietnam would need 1,601,967 IT staff majoring in digital technology by 2025 and 2,718,751 by 2030.
Nga stressed that it is urgently necessary to deploy a digital higher education model, reform training curriculums, and deploy digital skill training in association with market demand which can satisfy requirements of national digital transformation.
The head of the Vietnamese government committed that Vietnam would quickly prepare high-quality IT labor force that can satisfy the requirements of foreign investors.
In Japan, the ceremony on exchanging diplomatic note for Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development (JDS) was organized. The Japanese government will provide non-refundable aid worth 685 million yen ($4.8 million), which will be granted to Vietnamese citizens working at state agencies as scholarships to fund their studies in Japan. ■