About us
Open Development Vietnam (ODV) is part of the Open Development Network, a coalition of organizations co-managing a common open data and open knowledge platform aggregating and sharing information, maps and data to illuminate development trends in the Mekong region at country and regional levels. The ...
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Open Development Vietnam supports the work of the Open Development Initiative on Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) across the Mekong region. Read more about this work here. ...
Data Literacy
Open Development Vietnam supports the work of the Open Development Initiative on data literacy across the Mekong region. Read more about this programme here. ...
(Tiếng Việt) Một vài nét tổng quan về ngành công nghiệp khai khoáng của Việt Nam
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Call for National Researchers
Call for national researchers for the Global Data Barometer – Asia RegionDeadline for application for researchers (individuals and institutions) has been extended to February 28, 2021.Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers for the following 14 countries:Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; ...
Women in Open Data
What keeps Mekong women from accessing open data?Mekong Women in Data: Understanding barriers to women’s access to open data in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and VietnamPhoto by Mimi Thian on Unsplash. Licensed freely on Unsplash.Gender inequality underscores the lives of women all over the world. ...
Global Data Barometer
Global Data BarometerOpen Development Vietnam is supporting the Open Development Initiative who, with Sinar Project, through the D4D Asia Hub, has partnered with the Global Data Barometer to develop a new resource on data for the public good.The Global Data Barometer is expected to fill ...
Programmes
Open Development Vietnam’s programmes support the open movement in Vietnam and the Mekong region through making data and objective information accessible and useful to all people in the country. Our programmes aim to build strong data constituents who can act to level the playing field ...
Women storytelling project
“Women are the most important members in the community to preserve, transmit and protect cultural values.” Mr. Hoang Vu Nguyen – CSDMThe Center for Sustainable Development in Mountainous Areas (CSDM), in cooperation with ODV, has been working with Ethnic Thai and Tho women in Yen ...
Economy and Commerce
From one of the world’s poorest countries in late 1980s, in a period of 15 years, Vietnam transformed from an agricultural – based economy into a transitioning lower-middle income country. Poverty rates declined sharply from 79.7% in 1992 to 6.6% in 2018 (US$3.2/day PPP). The ...
The National Targeted Program on New Rural Development – 10 years review and way forward
In 2010, the Vietnam government established a rural development strategy, implemented through the National Targeted Program on New Rural Development. The program is intended to support more than 9,000 communes across the 63 provinces of Vietnam to upgrade services and infrastructure in their communities, raise ...
Highlights on Gender and Ethnic minority in Vietnam
Gender disaprity within and between 53 ethnic minority groups and the majority Kinh people persists in almost all socio-economic aspects in Vietnam. Social norms for ethnic minority cultures typically value women and girls less than men and boys. Unpaid household tasks and duties are assigned, ...
Disasters
Vietnam is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. S-shaped with a 3,440 km coastline, its unique geographic location in the monsoon belt of Southeast Asia and diverse topography means that Vietnam suffers from many different types of natural hazards, including typhoons, tropical ...
Drought
Mekong Delta of Vietnam has recently faced the most severe periods of drought and saline water intrusion in the last 100 years—notably in 2015–2016 and even more devastatingly in 2019–2020. Dry season droughts have become increasingly severe year over year, forcing the Government to declare ...
