Work plan promotes national digital transformation for socio-economic development (22/04/2024)

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the National Committee for Digital Transformation, has signed a decision to issue the committee’s work plan in 2024, aiming to speed up national digital transformation in an effective and practical manner, creating breakthroughs in the country's socio-economic development and contributing to completing all socio-economic targets for 2024 and the 2021-2025 period.

Decree to facilitate science, technology activities (18/04/2024)

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) is drafting a Government decree that will revise and supplement some articles of the 2014 document on investment and financial mechanisms for scientific and technological activities.

Networking event held for Vietnamese, Korean innovation firms (15/04/2024)

An investment promotion event was held in the northern port city of Hai Phong on April 15, aiming to connect Vietnamese and Korean enterprises in the field of innovation and start-up.

Sao Khue Award winners announced (14/04/2024)

The Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (VINASA) held a ceremony on April 23 to announce this year’s 169 award winners.

Vietnam racing in AI development (11/04/2024)

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) has proposed the Government approve a national strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) research, development and application by 2030.

Innovation vs. innovative startup: clearer definition for proper policy adoption (10/04/2024)

Experts comment that there are certain differences between innovation and innovative startup that need to be addressed for state management to implement suitable policies.

PM orders more efforts to ensure information security (08/04/2024)

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed to issue an official dispatch requesting ministries, sectors and localities to exert efforts to ensure information security, given recent increases in cyberattacks, especially the presence of ransomware.

Vietnam firms face highest local cyberthreats in Southeast Asia: Kaspersky (07/04/2024)

Businesses in Vietnam were the worst affected with 17.1 million incidents, according to data from global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

Training human resources crucial for digital transformation (07/04/2024)

It is forecast that by 2030, the country needs 2.5 million personnel to serve digital transformation, so promoting ICT human resources training is very urgent.

Vietnam targets all transport means run on green energy by 2050 (07/04/2024)

Vietnam aims to bring net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, so ideally all means of transport will use green energy. For the country, green transportation was also an urgent requirement to build green and smart cities, experts have said.