Science and technology

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has selected MVV Education’s two technologies, Consultant Anywhere and Everlearn, to implement a COVID-19 business counseling and training programme for 500 women-owned small- and medium-sized enterprises (WSMEs) in Vietnam.The programme will focus on providing tools to improve their capacity management capacity and skillsets to ...

Clinics in communes have improved their healthcare services and facilities to attract more local people and reduce patient overloads at city and province-level hospitals. Medical experts have said the grassroots healthcare system is the foundation of the national health system and if the grassroots system ...

Saving billions of dong in printing documents and time for students to queue up for school admission are some of the benefits for schools starting digital transformation efforts. Previously, students mostly studied in classes and teachers provided knowledge. But now, when applying information technology in ...

Singaporean media outlet the Business Times has published an article detailing how the digital transformation efforts in Vietnam have yielded the biggest improvement in comparison to other economies in the region.According to an industry study conducted of 11 markets throughout the Asia-Pacific region by mobile ...

Internet users in Vietnam, especially children, face many risks online, according to experts.Nguyen Quang Dong, Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Communication Development, told Tuoi tre (Youth) newspaper that the issue is rooted in the weak awareness and poor digital security skills of internet users, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has launched the “Review and remove malware nationwide in 2020” campaign to enhance the country’s network security.The campaign aims to reduce the malicious code infection rate by 50 percent. It also aims to cut the number of Vietnamese ...

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Anh Tuan said that his Ministry is about to submit to the PM the National Strategy for Digital Government Development for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030.According to the United Nations E-Government Rankings, Vietnam has jumped ...