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ITO conference promotes Vietnam as attractive IT destination

The Vietnam Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) Conference 2017 kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on October 19, aiming to introduce Vietnam as an attractive destination for IT services.
ITO conference promotes Vietnam as attractive IT destination ảnh 1Participants in the Vietnam Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) Conference 2017 pose for a photo (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – The VietnamInformation Technology Outsourcing (ITO) Conference 2017 kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City onOctober 19, aiming to introduce Vietnam as an attractive destination for ITservices that is comparable to leading countries in the world.

The two-day event drew organisations andbusinesses from 20 countries and territories such as the US, Japan, theRepublic of Korea, India, China, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.

Vietnam is given the sixth position in the A.T.Kearney’s 2017 Global Service Location Index. It ranked first among the world’sbusiness process outsourcing (BPO) centres in the 2016 list of Cushman &Wakefield. Meanwhile, the country was also named one of the six leadingdestinations for technology transfer in the Asian-Pacific region in a 2016report of advisory firm Gartner.

Dao Dinh Kha, Director of the Department ofInformation Technology under the Ministry of Information and Communications,said although Vietnam follows other countries like India and China in terms ofthe software market and IT services, it boasts certain advantages and potentialfor this sectors. 

Particularly, the country is completely able tostand firm in the fierce competition in the software sector with other nations,he added.

However, Director of the HCM City Investment andTrade Promotion Centre Pham Thiet Hoa said though Vietnam’s software industryhas been highly valued by many rating organisations in the world, most of localsoftware companies are small. Therefore, they have encountered numerousdifficulties when advertising their products in global markets.

It is necessary to step up promotion andinvestment to further market Vietnam’s IT sector to the world, Hoa noted.

At the ITO conference, there will also paneldiscussions on IT manpower in Vietnam, the prospect of BPO services in thecountry, Vietnam-Japan technology cooperation, and the application of newtechnologies to enhance competitiveness and reap success.-VNA
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