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| Delegates at launching ceremony (Photo: VNA) |
Speaking at the launching ceremony, Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Pham Quang Hieu said that since 2005, when the first Vietnamese IT company opened its branch in Japan, there have been by now over 60 companies that have established branches or started new operation in the country.
The establishment of VADX JAPAN shows the rapid maturity of Vietnamese IT businesses in Japan with a growth in their reputation, quality, human resource scale, revenue, and development opportunities in the future.
On behalf of the association’s executive committee, Mr. Do Van Khac, Chairman of the group, affirmed that the association is not only a place to connect businesses operating in the field of digital transformation and innovation, but is also destined to become a firm bridge to bring innovations and technological solutions from Vietnam to Japan and vice versa.
VADX JAPAN will organize activities to promote innovation, technology transfer, research and development, and application of advanced digital technologies for its members, according to Mr. Khac.
For human resource development, the group aims to build a contingent of tens of thousands of high-quality engineers in Japan and hundreds of thousands of engineers proficient in Japanese in Vietnam.
According to data from the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, this will help deal with Japan's shortage of human resources, estimated to be at nearly 800,000 people by 2030,.
In particular, personnel in new technology fields such as Cloud, Big Data, AI, Blockchain, and VR/XR will be given priority in the context that Japan is actively developing advanced technologies to build “Society 5.0” model.
Currently, Vietnamese IT businesses in Japan are growing very strongly in both quantity and quality. Among them, there are more than 10 enterprises with over 1,000 businesses such as FPT, Rikkeisoft, VTI, NTQ, and CMC. The total number of firms providing IT services to Japanese companies has reached nearly 500./.