Vietnamese Association for Information Processing (VAIP) and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) jointly held the recent conference “Vietnam IT leaders innovation and cyber - law round table”. VIB forum would like to excerpt some speakers’ ideas from the conference.
Dr Urs Gasser
Fellow at the Berkman Center for Cyber-Law, Harvard University, USA
Policies help boost the development of Information and communication technology (ICT). Putting forward new policies means driving ICT innovations and growth.
I am not sure if laws are the most essential. However, laws interact with other areas, including technology, markets, culture and norms, to create ICT innovations. The growth of US and European laws reveals that it takes time to develop laws. It might take decades to create an effective code. In the normal sense, law is to control or prohibit some activity. However, in case of ICT, law not only controls, but also offers assistance. E.g.: intellectual property laws stimulate more innovations.
What matters most is that businessmen find it difficult to learn the content of the law as well as access legal documents. One of the hot issues in ICT is intellectual property law. Online content theft is also an overheated issue in the recent time. It has spread worldwide. The more the economy develops, the more likely the development of infrastructure is shifted to the content. How can the privacy of online space be secured? To answer this question, a complete law code on privacy has been created in the US.
Mr Lorien Hamilton
TRG Vietnam
To make a comparison between Vietnam and India, an average Indian company has roughly 1,000 employees while a much smaller number is seen in Vietnamese companies.
In my opinion, Vietnam can carry out major projects once it has enough manpower.
Optimistically, the number of IT graduates in Vietnam increases every year. In 2002 to 2005, the number of IT graduates reached 20,000. Additionally, the command of English language in Vietnam ranks second only to Singapore; and the Government has a good strategy for ICT development. Payment for IT experts in Vietnam is being scaled up significantly. That’s why we can believe that Vietnamese ICT will grow strongly.
“If we wish to work with US partners, we will have to hire US employees to work for us.” However, Vietnamese companies tend to hire Vietnamese employees. I see most Vietnamese people find hard to feel at ease with Western style; they tend to feel unease working with foreigners. This is an obstacle for Vietnamese to overcome.
Mr Stacy Baird
Technology and Intellectual Property Consultant, California, USA
Government has a critical role in facilitating healthy interoperable systems. A healthy government interoperable system is essential for efficient, modern government operation. It allows the government to gain efficiency by facilitating collaboration and eliminating redundant services, business processes, data and infrastructure. The result can be better service to citizens in most government services including healthcare, education, emergency services, and national defence. A healthy interoperable system in the private sector enables innovations for users and, importantly for the government, greater trade opportunities and industrial and economic development. Interoperability underlies the capacity of industry and government to work together, exchange intellectual property, and build business and technical relationship; these relationships cross borders and cross industry sectors well beyond the IT industry. By focusing on areas where government can be particularly effective, government can improve the overall health of the greater interoperable system and by extension, the prosperity of the people and the growth of local economies.
Mr Michael Mudd
Regional Director Asia Pacific, Public Policy, CompTIA
Innovation is both open and closed. In closed innovation; the company that gets an innovation to the market first will win. And, if we create the most and best ideas in industry, we will win.
In open innovation, building a better business model is more important than getting to the market first; and if we make the best use of internal and external ideas we will win.
The IT industry is working with global standards bodies to enable open innovation to flourish through interoperability. With respect to IT, there is a need to recognize the work of industry researchers that have allowed modern society’s information infrastructure. Specifications are created by industry and accepted by users may form the basis of sound standards moving forward. This is a dynamic process.
CompTIA is a global trade association representing the business interests of the information technology industry. The association is involved in developing standards and best practices and influencing the political, economic and educational arenas that impact IT worldwide. In the coming time, CompTIA and Vietnamese ICT companies will work together to create a common standard, which will help process and export Vietnamese software as well as boost IT cooperation with foreign partners.
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