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| Thursday, 11 December 2003 |
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Asian technology leaders say quality education needed to feed IT boom NEW DELHI Asian information technology leaders stressed the need to ramp up their education infrastructure to keep the information technology boom going. They told an Asia Tech summit here that the IT industry was growing at a rapid rate with newer and newer technologies and warned the workforce had to be adequately trained to carry this forward. "Software training has become a most important problem because we need a high quality software industry," said Chen Chong, deputy director of department of electronics and IT Products from China's Ministry of Information Technology. "We need more software professionals to increase the quality. "By 2005, we will need 80,000 people in the industry but we now have just 30,000 people," he said, adding that even though 50,000 students were studying software, this still was not enough. Chong said IT leaders had to systematically examine the needs of the industry and then meet these by training students. Kiran Karnik, president of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), said the domestic industry was currently working with government to identify its needs for the next 10 years. But he said the government's resource constraints and the limitations of the traditional university system of education would prove to be key challenges in supplying the manpower needs of the dynamic industry. He added that the industry-government partnerships such as in training and providing computer education in various schools had to take off to bridge the demand for quality workers. "It could be a commercial proposition as the computers in schools can be used for training people who want to be educated in information technology," he added. Mohan Mirwani, country manager of India for Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, said that his country had a good model for boosting new IT by providing financial support to companies trying out new technology products. He also said that the gap between the manpower demand and supply was huge. The industry leaders said that some of the demand-supply gap could be bridged through cooperation with each other. AFP |
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