Vietnam should create optimal conditions to encourage technological innovation, President and CEO of Japan’s NTT DATA Corporation Toshio Iwamoto said at a workshop in Hanoi on March 1.
The military-run Viettel is among only 50 telecom companies in the world to successfully deploy the narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT), a technology developed for devices supporting IoT connectivity.
Increasing profit a few hundred percent, saving billions of dollars in technology costs, operating complex data systems in real time, transforming appropriate business models, improving operational efficiency and personalising customer experience on large-scale digital platforms at fast speed were the benefits of digital transformation, said Dr. Phuong Tram, FPT head consultant on digital transformation and former DuPont CIO at a seminar in Hanoi this week.
Russia is willing to assist Vietnam in developing its e-government via free-of-charge consultancy, technology transfer, and training of experts, said a Russian official.
Vietnam, like many other countries, is in a bid to spur economic innovation with Artificial Intelligence (AI), but experts said the country is starting from at a low point and needs to make a huge effort to catch up with the global trend.
The Government has issued a decree creating more favourable conditions for the development of businesses operating in the field of science and technology.
Despite lacking a college or university education, farmer Pham Van Nhut in Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre has made great contributions to agricultural development in his community.
The Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications, has forecast five major trends in network safety and security to watch in 2019.
The observatory and planetarium of Vietnam National Space Centre, located at Hanoi’s Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park, will be officially put into operation at the beginning of the second quarter this year.
The Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) is set to become a digital service provider this year, having lined up a number of products and services from the digital eco-system.
Subsidiaries of Vietnam’s Becamex IDC Corp. and Japan’s NTT East will partner in developing information and communications technology (ICT) to help southern Binh Duong province build a smart city.
The first images taken by Vietnamese satellite MicroDragon were sent to a land station in Japan on January 23 morning (Vietnam time), according to the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC) under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.
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