FPT - a member of the ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020

The ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020 announced that some 16 organizations joined the pledge on August 16 in Hanoi. They include Google, Grab, Lazada, Microsoft, Netflix, BigPay, Certiport, Cisco, General Assembly, Golden Gate Ventures, Plan International, Sea, ThyssenKrupp, Tokopedia, FPT and VNG.

Launched in September 2018, the ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020 aims to train by 2020 some 20 million people in South-East Asia. After 8 months, nearly 9 million employees working in small- and medium-size enterprises have been trained and more than 30,000 internship opportunities have been offered.

FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh participated in the session on ASEAN Youth: Technology, skills and the future of work at the Digital ASEAN Workshop by the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Truong Gia Binh (fourth from the left) participated in the discussion on ASEAN Youth: Technology, skills and the future of work.

He stated that FPT will become a pioneer in digital transformation with three specific actions. The first is to open digital transformation platforms and solutions, reducing the implementation time of organizations/businesses' digital transformation projects by 30-50%. The second is to transfer the FPT Digital Kaizen methodology to promote a simple digital transformation process, which does not require large investments. The third is to train 50,000 digital transformation experts for Vietnam.

"We will train them on new technologies such as AI, Blockchain etc. at FPT University or FUNiX Online University. We are also building an AI training center at Quy Nhon and believe that everything we commit to implement won't be in not only Vietnam but also Southeast Asia," said Binh.

Speaking at the event, Nguyen Manh Hung, Minister of Information and Communications 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.

Minister Hung highlighted the efforts made by ASEAN member states to co-ordinate with the WEF across a number of crucial aspects such as data policy, digital skills, e- payments, and cyber security, noting that these features will provide the foundation for the digital economy and digital ASEAN.

At the event, the World Economic Forum (WEF) launched their 2019 edition of the survey titled “ASEAN Youth: Technology, Skills and the Future of Work". WEF surveyed 56,000 ASEAN youth (aged 15- 35 years old). 5.7% of respondents reported having lost a job because their skills were no longer relevant or because technology displaced their job. Among those surveyed, 52.5% believed that they must upgrade their skills constantly.