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Vietnam's New Collaboration Portal Goes Live on IBM Cloud, Accelerating Universities' Adoption of Service Science
Vietnam's New Collaboration Portal Goes Live on IBM Cloud, Accelerating Universities' Adoption of Service Science
Vietnam National University First to Adopt New Initiative for Service Innovation
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced
today that the Vietnam Information for Science and Technology Advance
Innovation Portal goes live on an IBM cloud computing infrastructure. The
interactive online portal will be used by Vietnamese government
institutions and universities to develop education programs for Service
Science Management and Engineering (SSME), an emerging academic discipline
and research area that integrates aspects of computer science, engineering,
management science, business strategy, and social science.
Further, IBM and Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City today
signed a Memorandum Of Understanding about SSME education and IT Service
Curriculum (ITSC) for students and information technology (IT)
professionals. This is the first time for Vietnam to use an online
collaboration platform to support education on SSME and ITSC. Vietnam
National University will be the first in the country to adopt such a
program jointly created with IBM. The program will emphasize ITSC
principles, which will train students and professionals in using technology
for service delivery and better managing people, assets and processes.
To build and sustain a highly skilled and competitive workforce, the
Vietnamese government plans to adopt the academic programs nationwide
through a joint effort by the Ministry of Education and Training, the
Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Information and
Communications. These programs will offer computing courses in IT Service,
free software tools, and business case studies representing real-world
challenges.
Cultivating local talents with business and technical competencies has been
a top priority and continued focus for the Vietnamese government. In
February this year, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Thien Nhan and
IBM Chairman, President and CEO Sam Palmisano met in Hanoi to discuss skill
training for Vietnam talents among other topics.
"Our university is excited about adopting IBM's SSME and ITSC curriculum,
and using the Innovation Portal to enable open and collaborative
relationships with other universities and research institutions around the
world," said Asso. Prof. Le Quang Minh, Vice President of Vietnam National
University - Ho Chi Minh City. "We look forward to using the portal to
build skills that will empower students and workers to drive IT innovations
and benefit our market. Starting on university campuses, the programs are
expected to later expand to country-wide institutions across Vietnam."
Using the Innovation Portal as an open platform to develop and share
service management curriculum, the universities will gain access to the
repository of course materials. And the courses can be accessed anywhere,
anytime and by anyone online. Beyond supporting teaching and learning
functions, the portal can also be used to support research and development
activities among broader academic and business communities to foster new
services for local and global markets.
"The Innovation Portal and SSME programs help drive Vietnam's agenda for
technology and economy development forward. They open up new opportunities
for Vietnamese talent to flourish and interact with the world digitally,"
said Dr. Willy Chiu, Vice President, High Performance On Demand Solutions.
"When implemented broadly, these resources can give Vietnam a competitive
edge in the global market." Dr. Chiu added, "This is an example of using a
new enterprise data center infrastructure to support large volume Web-based
transactions."
The portal runs on IBM Idea Factory, a Web 2.0 social software service. The
Idea Factory operates in a cloud computing environment and helps virtually
connect experts and on-line communities to create ideas, share experiences
and debate opinions. Such real-time exchanges save time to destinations.
The ability is highly advantageous for geographically distributed
communities.
IBM's service management programs are designed to build technical and
business leadership skills with students to promote service innovation.
Over the past five years, IBM has been working with more than 150
universities around the world to implement SSME programs and more than 80
universities to establish IT Service Curriculum. Taking a
multi-disciplinary approach to education, these programs analyze how
factors such as technology, relationship, culture, economics, and processes
inform and impact the service business.
IBM's Academic Initiative, launched in 2004, is an innovative program
seeking to advance open standards among the next generation of IT
professionals and equip science and technology students with skills to lead
the future of the IT industry. For more information on IBM's Academic
Initiative, please visit
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/us/en/university/scholars/academicinitiative/
For more information on SSME, please visit
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/scholars/skills/ssme/index.html
For more information on ITSC, please visit
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/devtool/scholar/web/coursewarePickPage.do?source=ai-course-itservices
IBM Cloud Computing Milestones
Cloud computing is an information technology infrastructure in which
computing resources are virtualized and accessed as a service. IBM has been
expanding its cloud computing capabilities around the world. IBM's first
Cloud Computing Center was established in the IBM Almaden Research Center
in Silicon Valley in June 2007. IBM launched Europe's first Cloud Computing
Center in Dublin, Ireland on March 19, 2008. Over the past year, IBM has
provided cloud computing services to clients such as China Telecom, Wuxi
City of China and Sogeti, the Local Professional Services Division of
Capgemini. IBM also launched "Blue Cloud," a series of cloud computing
offerings, and entered into partnerships for cloud computing programs with
a number of partners in Europe. For more information about IBM cloud
computing, please visit
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/hipods/
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