Vietnamese media could be falling behind the relentless march of technological development and need to catch up soon, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said at the Press and Technology Forum in Hanoi on November 13.
Smart city building is a crucial solution to boost economic growth and prosperity in Vietnam, while investing in ‘smart city’ projects is the best way for Vietnam to digitalise, an expert has said.
The 2019 Export Forum was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 27 to discuss the strengthening of trade promotion to enhance production and exports by city businesses.
Information and technology (IT) firms will lead the country’s digital transformation in all sectors, said Phan Tam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications (MIC).
A workshop focusing on benefits brought by digital platforms, especially contributions by Grab to Indonesia’s economic development, was held by the Centre Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Tenggara Strategics in Jakarta on July 23.
Vice Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Ngo Van Quy and Sunita Rajan, Senior Vice President of Asia-Pacific Advertising Sales at CNN International, signed a memorandum of understanding on May 20 on a cooperation agreement to popularise the capital city on the CNN channel for the 2019-2024 period.
The 2019 Ha Nam Declaration was issued at end of the 16th United Nations Day of Vesak at the Tam Chuc Convention Centre in the northern province of Ha Nam on May 14.
A pending project on national digital transition aims for the digital industry to contribute 25 percent of Vietnam’s GDP by 2025 and for the country to be placed fourth among ASEAN member states in terms of national digital ranking.
Nearly 300 Vietnamese and foreign experts gathered in a conference in Hanoi on May 2 to seek ways to complete institutions and fundamental conditions for the development of digital economy in Vietnam.
Vietnamese businesses should embrace digital transformation to remain competitive and enhance their value, heard a seminar on digital transformation held on March 21 in HCM City.
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.
Vietnam will create conditions for the development of a sharing economy, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said at a recent conference about the compilation of a sharing economy model.
Legal frameworks, policies on intellectual property rights and cyber security were topics of interest for enterprises, especially foreign-invested companies, at the Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) 2018.
Enterprises need to change their mindset to move into the digital world ahead of the fourth industrial revolution, a government official said this week.
In the future, the use of digital platforms by businesses will become a decisive factor in their success, delegates said at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on October 12.
E-commerce is growing rapidly and thus posing challenges to State management agencies, as heard at a conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 14 reviewing the five-year implementation of the government’s Decree No.52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce.
The theme proposed by Vietnam for the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF-ASEAN) this year, “ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4),” is very relevant and timely, said Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Stephen P. Groff.
As information and communications technology (ICT) is revolutionising the way society functions, another significant transformation that ICT is capable of bringing in is the establishment of smart cities.
Amidst the fourth industrial revolution, domestic banks have actively invested in technologies to improve their products, services and governance, Vice Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Kim Anh told a seminar in Hanoi on June 15.
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