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Vietnamese Government ranked 39th in AI readiness: Report

The Vietnamese Government ranked 39th out of 193 countries in terms of artificial intelligence (AI) readiness on a 2023 report by the UK-based Oxford Insights.
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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) — The Vietnamese Governmentranked 39th out of 193 countries in terms of artificial intelligence(AI) readiness on a 2023 report by the UK-based Oxford Insights.

This marks asignificant jump for Vietnam's AI readiness. The country ranked 55thin 2022, 62nd in 2021, and 76th in 2020.

The Oxford Insightsannual report looks at the preparedness of governments to use AI todeliver public services to their citizens. The report includes 39 indicatorsthat measure governments' digital capacity, technologicalcapabilities, and data infrastructure.

With a total AIreadiness score of 54.48, Vietnam ranks at 9th placewithin the East Asia region. This score is lower than four of thecountry's ASEAN peers — Singapore (which ranked 1st), Malaysia(6th), Thailand (7th), and Indonesia (8th) — but higher than the readinessrankings of Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia.

Vietnam's score is also higherthan East Asia's average ranking of 51.41, which places it 4thamong the 9 global regions covered in the report.

On January 26, 2021, Vietnamese Prime Minister issued a decisionon the "National Strategy for Research, Development, and Application ofArtificial Intelligence until 2030." This strategy set thegoal of promoting research, development and application of artificialintelligence, making artificial intelligence a crucial technological field forVietnam in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, contributing to the socio-economicdevelopment and gradually establishing Vietnam as a bright spot inresearch, development and application of artificial intelligence in theregion and the world.

Since then, AI technologies have been deployed across multiple sectorsin Vietnam.

By 2030, Vietnam aspires to beone of the top four nations in ASEAN and among the top 50 globally in therealm of AI research, development and application. Thecountry aims to trademark 10 AI technologies andcreate three high-performing national data and computing centres./.

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