New software village opens

The paucity of skilled IT (information technology) workers in the country was highlighted on February 13 as the FPT Corporation opened its second software village, F-Ville 2, in Hanoi.
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Hanoi (VNA) - The paucity of skilled IT (information technology) workersin the country was highlighted on February 13 as the FPT Corporation opened itssecond software village, F-Ville 2, in Hanoi.

Speakingat the opening ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam noted that PrimeMinister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had in a recent meeting expressed his wish to have amillion people working in the IT and digital content sector in Vietnam in theshortest possible time.

However,there are just 300,000 employees in the sector now, “so we have much work todo,” he said.

Damsaid enterprises other than FPT should also establish software “villages” withtens of thousands employees if the dream of making the hi-tech zone aninternational software hub is to be realised.

Thevillage was established by FPT Software, a part of the FPT Corporation. It islocated in the F-Ville complex that was licensed in 2012. With a floor area of28,000 sqm, F-Ville 2 can have 3,000 people working it.

Thenew village’s predecessor, F-Ville 1, opened in 2013, covering an area of16,000sqm. It currently has 2,000 employees.

“Thesoftware village F-Ville is the first and largest software export centre builtin the Hoa Lac Hi-tech Zone. FPT is committed to continuing its investment ineducation, infrastructure development, research and development so that thesoftware village can become a global centre for digital transformationservices,” said FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh.

Hesaid the 5,000 employees of F-Ville will work with FPT Software’s staff inJapan, the US, Germany, France, Slovakia, Singapore and the Republic of Koreato research and implement projects for Japanese customers.

TsuyoshiOkubo, Managing Director of Honda Techno Fort (Japan), one of 100 Japanesecustomers of FPT Software taking part in the event said: “Honda and FPT havebeen cooperating since 2014. I think that the growth of FPT at present is aninevitable result of the vision and strategic thinking of the corporation’sleaders with their experience in many fields.

“Inthe future, we hope to contribute our efforts along with you towards boostingeconomic development cooperation between Vietnam and Japan,” he said.

Japanis the most important market for FPT Software, bringing in revenues of morethan 100 million USD last year. The company has set itself the goal of beinglisted in the top 50 IT service companies in Japan this year.-VNA
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