Software industry in Da Nang: The day has come

Under the view of experts, Danang is a place with great potential for developing the software industry. Therefore, not long after becoming a central city, Da Nang considered software industry development a responsibility. From the initial ideas, after only 5 years, the software industry in Da Nang has proved the effectiveness of the 'go-ahead, proactive' strategy in information technology.

Since the message ' Da Nang will invest heavily in the software industry ', many people consider it an 'utopian'. By then, these high-tech investment indicators seemed nothing, along with fuzzy computer development plans. However, after only 5 years, especially since the Resolution 07 of the Danang City Party Committee, the software industry roadmap in this city has been very optimistic. In particular, in 2006, Da Nang had the first export software products, including outsourcing software and application software.

Mr. Pham Kim Son, Director of the Department of Posts and Telematics, and Director of Da Nang City Software Center, said: " If in 2000, we did not have any concept of software production, now it is available. A software team of nearly 1,000 people, from where Danang has not had any software units, now has 30 units, and if in 2005, Da Nang could not export, then in 2006, nearly 2 million were exported. This is a very significant number ".

Currently, software units in Danang are having many partners from Japan, North America and many software technology investors in particular and information technology in general.

Da Nang's breakthrough on the way to find a new technology, along with other strengths, has great merit of the Party Committee and the city government. The leaders of Da Nang have given this industry special priorities, serving the goal of 'turning off, getting ahead'. At the same time, it is impossible not to mention the effort of Softech Da Nang Software Technology Center, in the field of human resource training, because human factors are always the deciding issue.

Mr. Pham Kim Son also added: " In 5 years, Da Nang has spent nearly 2 million USD to train human resources. In particular, the city organized hundreds of university graduates to go abroad. training, Danang is also one of the few localities that has abandoned the budget to issue scholarships to international programmers ".

Mr. Le Van Duan, Manager of Da Nang Software Center Training Center, explained more about the Center's plan: " About international programmers, students can learn Aptech program of India. Must learn In English and using the highest technology available today, they also learned about Jobtech, Java, learned about open source, graduated, they were able to build software for large systems, yes can work right away, be able to participate immediately in the project, this is understandable because the program's characteristic is that while studying, it is already participating in the project ".

From the initial ideas, in a mind that does not yet have customers, or customers have not trusted in the strength of the software team in Da Nang, so far, the ability to make software from basic to advanced Da Nang has become a reality and is promising.

Currently, many training and retraining activities for the software team have been initiated by Da Nang - this is seen as a move to make the information technology market exciting for the whole region. Central

Le Sen