Vietnam aims to handle all administrative procedure applications online by 2030, according to the freshly approved National Data Strategy.The strategy sets the target of having 100% of national Data centres, regional Data centres and national centres for large Data storage and high performance computing across ...

ITU Digital World 2020 will open in Hanoi on October 20, with one of the focuses being the transformation of management activities in the digital environment.Also, key discussions at the event will be how digital nation strategies have been changing in the COVID-19 pandemic; the ...

Following the direction of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, chair of the National Committee on E-government, from 2021, a digital transformation ranking will be given to ministries and provinces each year. In order to implement the plan on ranking ministries and provinces from 2021, the Ministry ...

This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri-food context. However, because rice production is so important to the ...

With a smartphone, it is now easy for Bui Nguyen The Kiet to monitor the status of 35,000-hectare Can Gio mangrove forest and manage patrolling missions in each zone.Kiet wished to apply technology into the forest management task, leading to the birth of the initiative ...

Vietnam Data Summit 2022, the first of its kind in Vietnam, will be held by the Ho Chi Minh Computer Association (HCA) and Western Digital Vietnam in the southern city on June 24, heard a press conference on June 10.The summit will focus its discussions ...

Rana Flowers, Chief Representative of UNICEF in Vietnam, said Vietnam is leading other countries in digital transformation in the education sector.The expert said on the sidelines of the conference on digital transformation in ASEAN’s education sector that she is impressed by the great efforts and ...

Scientific research and technology transfer for the forestry sector in the 2021-2030 period will focus on the hybridisation of new varieties, giving priority to planting high-yield, good-quality and pest-and-disease preventive capable tree varieties, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan. ​Luring ...

Vietnam targets raising the proportion of trained workers to 35-40 percent by 2030 under a support programme for labour market development newly issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.Under the programme, Vietnam expects to be among the top 60 countries in the Knowledge Workers sub-pillar ...

CFI launches a scheme to support online newsrooms in the Mekong region to publish content on environment, health and sustainable development.With the support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and as part of its Mekong: Sustainable News project, CFI will help local newsrooms to ...

The first edition of the White Book on Vietnamese Businesses was launched at a ceremony in Hanoi on July 10. The White Book, compiled by the General Statistics Office under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, contains essential information assessing the development of enterprises across the ...

Developing renewable energy resources is expected to help Vietnam reach its target of carbon neutrality by 2050, said insiders.Energy transition, replacing traditional fossil fuel sources to using cleaner and low-emission forms of energy and moving towards carbon neutrality is an important part of Vietnam’s future energy landscape.Experts said that about two-thirds ...

A seminar on Vietnamese-European knowledge and technology transfer took place at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, in Hanoi, on September 11. The event is a part of the Vietnamese – European Knowledge and Technology Transfer Consortium (VETEC) project network development chain – under the ...

The Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET) was officially launched in Hanoi on September 19. Established in late 2018, the VIET works as an independent organisation studying activities related to the transition of the national energy system. Its main activity is hosting exchanges between scientists and policymakers in energy ...

The Vietnam Educamp 2019, a forum on education, was held in Hanoi on August 17, giving a chance for educators and experts to share their ideas, experience and research results on issues related to education at all levels and vocational training.Participants at the event presented ...

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on September 25 introduced a Vietnamese virtual assistant platform as developed by the Army Telecommunication Industry Corporation (Viettel). Named the Viettel Cyberbot, the platform aims to help businesses automate customer care processes on the basis of Vietnamese language ...

The report titled “Taking Stock: Digital Vietnam – The Path to Tomorrow” was developed by World Bank and published on 24/08/2021.The report reviews the recent developments in the Vietnamese economy and discusses the economy’s short- to medium-term prospects, highlighting domestic and external risks associated to ...

The report “Review of Local Governments’ Implementation of Personal Data Protection on Online Government-Citizen Interaction Interfaces, 2022” was conducted by Institute for Policy Studies and Media Development (IPS) in collaboration with UNDP Vietnam from October 2021 to June 2022. This report presents findings from the review of ...

The Covid-19 pandemic offers the opportunity to accelerate digital transformation across the entire nation: the economy, the society; the state, the enterprises; the whole community, the entire people.The two-handed model, a free market and a strong state, have been confirmed in the Covid-19 prevention. Vietnam ...

Agricultural planning is a crucial part of the Mekong Delta regional master plan that will help open opportunities, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Minh Hoan has said.The Coordination Office for Agriculture and Rural Affairs in the Mekong Delta, based in Cần Thơ City, coordinated ...