Information Technology (IT) human resource development has been put on the top agenda for all countries’ development in the fourth industrial revolution.In this movement, Vietnam also has to deal with a huge gap between the demand and supply of high-quality IT human resources. The paper puts forward five major solutions for the inadequate IT human resources in Vietnam including (i) developing an optimum strategy for high-quality IT human resources; (ii) enhancing the cooperation and networking among different partiesincluding Government, training institutions, businesses; (iii) updating and diversifying the training programs; (iv) regenerating the good model/practice of connecting business - university - technology providers in integrated efforts of IT human resource development; (v) developing an information connecting portal.
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