US helps HCM City develop smart city operations centre
HCM City (VNA) - 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.
The
signing took place within the “Ho Chi Minh City - US Business Summit: Driving
Partnerships and Innovation for the Future”, co-held by the municipal People’s
Committee, the US Consulate General, and the American Chamber of Commerce in
Vietnam (AmCham), HCM City Chapter.
The smart
city operations centre is among four pillars in a master plan to transform
Vietnam’s southern economic hub into a smart city in the 2017-2020 period and vision
towards 2025.
It is the
centre of control, or the “brain”, of a smart city, collecting and analysing
real-time data and information to help decision-makers govern, plan, and shape
the future development of HCM City.
The
project on technical assistance for the building of the smart city will be carried
out by US-based Winbourne Consulting.
It has total
investment of more than 1.4 million USD, close to 1.2 million USD of which will
be provided by the USTDA in the form of non-refundable aid, while the remainder
will come from Winbourne Consulting, according to the agreement./.