Hanoi (VNA), April 7 -- Vietnam is facing a significant shortage of human resources , both in quantity and quality, for occupations related to the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. As the nation is promoting the National Digital Transformation Programme to 2025, Vietnam aims to develop digital government, economy and society, the need to fill this gap has become more urgent than ever.

In 2000, Vietnam had only about 50,000 people working in the ICT sector who contributed about 0.5% to the country's GDP. After more than 20 years, this workforce exceeded more than 1 million people and made up to 14.3% of its GDP.

It is forecast that by 2030, the country needs 2.5 million personnel to serve digital transformation, so p...