HCM City, Google foster partnership in education development
Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Duong Anh Duc on August 9 received Google for Education Regional Manager for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand Paul Hutchings who underlined Google for Education’s interest to seek cooperation opportunities with the city.
HCM City (VNA) – Vice Chairman of the People’sCommittee of Ho Chi Minh City Duong Anh Duc on August 9 received Google forEducation Regional Manager for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand PaulHutchings who underlined Google for Education’s interest to seek cooperationopportunities with the city.
Holding that this is the best time for the city to speed updigital transformation, Hutchings said that the two sides have greatcooperation potential in this field and promote the growth of the localeducation sector.
He thanked the city for accompanying with and supporting Googleduring the implementation of its programme to support education development inthe city, expressing his belief that the two sides will work together tobuild a new technology-using strategy, thus creating an ecosystem to optimise thepotential of students and teachers.
He said in the future, Google will introduce the Chromebook solution in Vietnam,and commit itself to providing an ecosystem of education technology including technologyand AI applications and achievements for education.
Google hopes to introduce its latest and most advancedsolutions and make contributions to the growth of the digital economy of thecity in particular and Vietnam in general, especially in the fields of humanresources training, he said.
For his part, Duc said that HCM City pays special attentionto high-quality human resources training serving digital transformationprocess, and hopes to build a development foundation basing on science, technologyand AI.
The city highly values Google’s engagement in education sector, he said,stressing that IT solutions will be an effective tool for enhancing the qualityof vocational and tertiary training.
Google for Education Regional Manager for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand Paul Hutchings (R) hands over Google for Education's commitment to Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Duong Anh Duc (Photo: VNA)
Duc expressed his belief thatthe two sides will work more efficiently for the growth of the educationsector, adding the city hopes for Google’s assistance in building criteria andstandards for technology access for students and designing a training programmefor lecturers.
Google for Education made its official commitment to HCMCity and introduced AI Education - its partner company in Vietnam - to implementjoint action plans.
Accordingly, AI Education will conduct free consultation andsupport programmes on the implementation of Workspace for Education for thewhole city, while training personnel on system management of Workspace forEducation services. It will develop and implement a training plan forinformation technology administrators, along with training plans for localteachers and provide Google's international standard training programmes in thefield of digital skills and AI skills./.
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An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
Google for Education Regional Manager for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand Paul Hutchings (R) hands over Google for Education's commitment to Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Duong Anh Duc (Photo: VNA) 
