The event, held in both in-person and online formats, aimed to facilitate academic exchanges, share experiences, and propose new directions for cooperation between the two countries in the context of increasingly robust global digital transformation.
Vietnam, one of the leading countries in Southeast Asia in terms of digital infrastructure development, continues to make significant efforts to build a modern and integrated digital foundation, driving the comprehensive digital transformation of the nation, from digital government and digital economy to digital society.
The northern province of Bac Giang is building a digital communication platform connecting the local administration with citizens and businesses, according to Tran Minh Chieu, director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications (DoIC).
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is Chairman of the National Committee for Digital Transformation, chaired an online conference to implement the expansion of the electronic health record system and the issuance of judicial record certificates via the app VNeID nationwide.
Vietnam can learn a lot from Singapore and other countries to build a smart government and smart cities so as to pave the way for rapid progress in the future, according to Associate Prof., Dr. Vu Minh Khuong at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy under the National University of Singapore.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called for more drastic efforts and resolve to accelerate the digital transformation that has contributed to creating new motives for the nation development while chairing the Government’s hybrid conference with leaders of ministries and sectors and chairmen of the People’s Committees of the centrally-run cities and provinces on July 19.
One of the targets of the information and communications infrastructure master planning scheme with a vision to 2050 is that 100% of the adult population in Vietnam will have smartphones.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh urged officials to raise their sense of responsibility towards administrative reform while chairing the sixth meeting of the Government’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform on November 14.
The Government on October 30 approved a development plan on the National Data Centre, expected to help Vietnam reach higher positions in the global e-Government, information technology, and cybersecurity rankings.
An international workshop on population database and digital government was held in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on October 20, with the theme of developing and exploiting the national database on population to better serve people and enterprises.
Winners of the Vietnam Digital Awards 2023 (VDA 2023) will be honoured at a ceremony slated for October 7 as part of activities in response to National Digital Transformation Day (October 10).
Participants at a workshop in Hanoi on July 26 shared their views on obstacles to digital transformation in State-owned enterprises and experience in this regard.
The building and development of the e-Government and digital Government were among the outstanding achievements in administrative reform in the first half of this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs has said.
Da Nang topped the country’s Digital Transformation Index (DTI) rankings in 2022, according to the DTI 2022 Report released by the Ministry of Information and Communications on July 13. This is the third consecutive year the central city has led the way in digital transformation.
A seminar on data connecting and sharing serving digital government and governance took place in Hanoi on May 25 as part of the Vietnam - Asia DX Summit 2023.
Digital transformation is considered a catalyst for many businesses to transform and adapt to green and sustainable models. Recently, dual transformation (green and digital) has been mentioned by the European Union and is an important future trend.
