http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800573589_480200_NT_8697cf62_2.HTM IBM Boosts Vietnam IT With New Innovation Center EE Times Asia (05/26/09) IBM recently opened the first IBM Innovation Center in Vietnam to help local communities build skills and develop new technologies to support demand for digital infrastructure projects. The center, which will be located in Ho Chi Minh City, will provide business partners and academics throughout Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos with access to training workshops, consulting services, technical infrastructure, and hands-on learning to help bring new technologies to the market. The IBM Academic Initiative will work with the University of Technology, Vietnam National University (VNU) in Ho Chin Minh City to establish a new university cloud computing center and a cloud curriculum. The College of Technology, VNU in Hanoi will establish a Service Science Management and Engineering department and jointly develop curriculum with IBM. IBM also will launch the first Vietnamese language version of its developerWorks, a global site to help IT professionals advance and improve their skills. IBM efforts in Vietnam are due to the country's accelerated IT growth. As Internet use in Vietnam has grown rapidly, the country's IT sector has expanded more than 20 percent annually. The Vietnam IBM Innovation Center will provide technical experts and customized hands-on support to test and validate users' software technologies before they go to market, and will offer training and access to open standards-based and emerging technologies.