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Digital transformation expected to help Da Nang with smart city building

Da Nang is drafting a plan on digital transformation which is viewed as momentum for the central city to address bottlenecks in development and complete its smart city building by 2030.
Digital transformation expected to help Da Nang with smart city building ảnh 1Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee Nguyen Van Quang (standing) speaks at the workshop on March 22 (Photo: VNA)
Da Nang (VNA) – Da Nang is drafting aplan on digital transformation which is viewed as momentum for the central cityto address bottlenecks in development and complete its smart city building by2030.

Experts gathering at a workshop on March 22recommended Da Nang to focus its digital transformation plan until 2025, with avision to 2030, on digital economy, digital society, and digitaladministration.

It should develop a digital foundation, digitaldata, digital infrastructure, digital personnel, and cyber safety and security,which are considered driving forces of digital transformation, they said.

Secretary of the municipal Party CommitteeNguyen Van Quang said the national digital transformation programme, issuedunder the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 749/QD-TTg on June 3, 2020, is key toimplementing the Politburo’s Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW on some guidelines andpolicies for proactive participation in the fourth Industrial Revolution.

“Da Nang must carry out digital transformationto help national digital transformation be successful,” he stated.

Quang noted that digital transformation ismomentum for removing bottlenecks that have hampered the city’s developmentover the last years and helping to achieve the goal that by 2030, Da Nang willcomplete its smart city building and be uniformly connected with the smartcities networks of Vietnam and ASEAN.

It will also support Da Nang to become anecological, modern, and worth-living city as targeted by the 12th-tenurePolitburo in Resolution No. 43-NQ/TW on the development of Da Nang until 2030,with a vision to 2045, he added.

Vice Chairman of the municipal People’sCommittee Le Quang Nam said Da Nang identifies its people and businesses as thecentre of digital transformation, adding that to reap successes, it isnecessary to have right, clear, and feasible strategies, visions, targets,tasks, and solutions, as well as resolutions and plans reflecting municipal leaders’political resolve.

Also at the workshop, the municipal People’sCommittee announced a decision to set up the city’s digital transformation advisorycouncil and designated August 28 as the digital transformation day of DaNang./.
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