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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a directive to promote the development of digital enterprises in Vietnam with a target of developing 100,000 tech firms by 2030.

Vietnam always attaches importance to the relations of friendship and cooperation with Japan, taking it as the country’s long-term partner of top importance, a leading Party official said on January 8.

The Information and Communications Publishing House has recently published the Vietnam White Book on Information and Communication Technology 2019.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed comprehensive progress in the information and communications sector this year during its conference in Hanoi on December 28.

The Thua Thien-Hue Centre for Information Technology (HueCIT) has become a member of the Quang Trung Software City (QTSC) following Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s ratification of the admission.

The ITU Digital World 2020, a global platform for accelerating innovations in information and communication technology (ICT), will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, from September 6 – 9.

Vietnam is seeking to develop its information and communications technology industry (ICT) with a focus on domestic firms to make it a key economic sector in the next decade, according to experts.

Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh and Minister of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Choi Kiyoung on November 27 signed an agreement to co-finance research projects from 2019 – 2020.

The leaders of Republic of Korea (RoK) and Brunei agreed on November 24 to ramp up partnerships between the two sides on smart cities and other ICT-related programmes in a joint response to the fourth industrial revolution.

Vietnam has ranked seventh at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards 2019 (APICTA Awards 2019), the first ever of its kind held in Vietnam.

Viettel Telecom Corporation has been named Vietnam’s Mobile Data Service Provider of the Year at the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards recently held in Singapore.

At the conference, representatives from the northern province of Quang Ninh shared experience in technological adoption and expressed their high determination in building a smart city.

National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has won the 2019 ICT Award from the Asian-Oceania Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) for its outstanding achievements and important contributions to the development and application of information technology in operation and services.

Nearly 500 delegates from 11 Vietnamese provinces and cities and 16 member organisations of the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) gathered at an international conference on digital transformation towards building smart cities in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 20.

The People’s Committee of northern Quang Ninh province and the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association launched the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards 2019, the first of its kind ever held in Vietnam, on November 19

Three representatives of Vietnam won ICT awards for 2019 of the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO), according to the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA).

International experts, scholars and organisations gathered at a workshop held by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) on November 7 to discuss how to use Information Communications Technology (ICT) to promote gender equality and empowerment of women.

Vietnam is a promising market for fintech companies thanks to its young demographic, strong e-commerce growth, and increasing smartphone and internet users, heard a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on October 31

ASEAN ministers of telecommunications and information technology have affirmed the resolve to press on with initiatives and cooperation programmes to promote digital transformation in the region at their meeting in Vientiane, Laos.

Vietnam won a gold prize and a silver prize at the categories of corporate social responsibility and digital content at the ASEAN ICT Awards 2019 (AICTA) on October 24 in Vientiane, Laos.