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US helps HCM City develop smart city operations centre

Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Information and Communications on August 25 signed an agreement with the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) on technical assistance for the building of a smart city operations centre.
US helps HCM City develop smart city operations centre ảnh 1At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA)


HCM City (VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Information and Communications onAugust 25 signed an agreement with the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)on technical assistance for the building of a smart city operations centre.

Thesigning took place within the “Ho Chi Minh City - US Business Summit: DrivingPartnerships and Innovation for the Future”, co-held by the municipal People’sCommittee, the US Consulate General, and the American Chamber of Commerce inVietnam (AmCham), HCM City Chapter.

The smartcity operations centre is among four pillars in a master plan to transformVietnam’s southern economic hub into a smart city in the 2017-2020 period and visiontowards 2025.

It is thecentre of control, or the “brain”, of a smart city, collecting and analysingreal-time data and information to help decision-makers govern, plan, and shapethe future development of HCM City.

Theproject on technical assistance for the building of the smart city will be carriedout by US-based Winbourne Consulting.

It has totalinvestment of more than 1.4 million USD, close to 1.2 million USD of which willbe provided by the USTDA in the form of non-refundable aid, while the remainderwill come from Winbourne Consulting, according to the agreement./.

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