Japan’s NEC electronic firm has signed a contract worth 260 million JPY (3 million USD) with Hanoi to help the Southeast Asian city build and manage a database of its residents.

NEC is also expected to sign another contract worth 20 billion JPY with Vietnam for a planned project that will include the management of data about Vietnamese citizens during the next five years. At present, Vietnamese cities and provinces mostly manage their population data by hard documents.

Since 2005, Vietnam has exerted efforts to build a modern information system to digitalise the database on its people.

Other Japanese electronics firms like Hitachi and Fujitsu also have plans to win contracts to build information systems overseas./.