Tech talent in Asia Pacific see more challenges - Jakarta Post

Chinese tech giant Huawei has launched a five-year US$50 million budget to develop 500,000 information and communication technology (ICT) talents in the Asia Pacific region.
Experts from the region convened on Wednesday at the 2021 Digital Talent Summit webinar, cohosted by the ASEAN Foundation and Huawei, to explore ways to step up developing digital talents as a huge shortage of skilled personnel continues.
International consultant Korn Ferry estimated a shortage of 47 million tech talents by 2030 in the Asia Pacific region. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found in a survey that more than 50 percent of Asia Pacific CEOs say it is difficult to hire digital talent with the right skills.
The challenges have also entered a new phase as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the digital talent landscape in the Asia Pacific like never before, according to Huawei’s 2022 Digital Talent Insight.
The world is in the midst of disruptions with emerging technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and blockchain poised to dramatically reshape the digital economy.
“We have gone beyond skill development [that can be learned] to seek ‘transformation leadership’ […] It’s all about the mindset […] of talents who think of customers first […] and who can take to the challenge the status quo,” Gokhan Ogut, CEO of Malaysia’s telecom firm Maxis, said at the webinar.
Vu Minh Khuong from Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy...

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