The Vietnamese startup community has made breakthroughs despite difficulties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic as a record high of more than 1.3 billion USD in venture capital was pumped into startups last year.
Ho Chi Minh City’s official digital transformation portal https://chuyendoiso.hochiminhcity.gov.vn has been put into operation, the municipal Department of Information and Communications said on March 18.
More than 200 booths of companies working in the travel industry and over 60 partners from Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, India, and Southeast Asian countries have taken part in Danang FantastiCity 2022 Online Travel Mart 2022 which opened on March 17 in the central city of Da Nang with a ceremony livestreamed on the event's fanpage.
Ten startups in promising new technology areas will receive financial benefits of 10,000 USD each from Qualcomm, and be invited for months of technical and business incubation, the semiconductor producer announced on March 16.
The People’s Committee of the south-central province of Binh Dinh has approved the detailed planning of a centre for artificial intelligence (AI) research and development (R&D) to be constructed in the provincial capital of Quy Nhon.
This year, the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City will develop artificial intelligence applications in many sectors, such as public administration, transport, healthcare, banking and industries.
The People's Committee of Quang Ninh on March 12 held a conference to announce its application of an electronic ISO software system following the Vietnamese standard ISO 9001:2015 in the operations of 227 local public administrative agencies, making the province the first in the northern region to do so.
Vietnam has achieved significant progress in adopting digital solutions for regulatory reform, which should be further pushed ahead to make substantial changes for greater efficiency of the state apparatus, UK Ambassador to Vietnam Gareth Ward said at the launch of a report on the adopting of digital solutions for regulatory reform on March 10.
The World Mobile Broadband and ICT Summit 2022 was held in Hanoi on March 9 to discuss the modernisation of telecommunications infrastructure and digital content services toward the promotion of a digital economy and society.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee will hold voluntary activities on building new-style rural areas on March 13, as part of the Youth Month 2022.
Artificial intelligence (AI) products have been used in all sectors in Vietnam, such as public administration, transport, healthcare, banking and industries, in tandem with digital transformation.
Quang Ninh province is working to strongly develop the digital economy and establish itself into a role model in comprehensive digital transformation at the provincial level.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 2 demanded accelerating implementation of the project on developing and applying the population data and electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation.
The northern province of Quang Ninh is set to ramp up digital transformation in all fields this year, firstly in health care, education, industry, tourism, transport, and logistics.
Samsung Vietnam has announced its participation in the ‘Google for Education’ pilot programme, which is being carried out at the Thuc Nghiem Junior High School in Hanoi.
Cities and localities across the country have devised their own digital transformation programmes, which shows they have realised the importance of digital transformation to tourism development.
Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, and VNPAY, Vietnam’s prominent fintech company, inked a strategic partnership to enhance the digital payments experience in Vietnam during a ceremony held in Hanoi on February 23.
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