Technology

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam urged mobile network operators to further simplify procedures for mobile number portability services to create convenience for users to switch networks.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a list of priority technologies for research and development in a bid to facilitate participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Measures to speed up digital transformation in health care, finance-banking and small- and medium-sized enterprises were discussed at symposiums held on December 15.

IBM Vietnam will offer new online for teachers and students to learn the foundations of artificial intelligence for free to prepare the next generation of leaders.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has introduced the Flex Digital platform, a comprehensive solution to develop e-government in all fields on the basis of its components facilitating important activities.

The Vietnam Digital Transformation Day 2020 is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on December 14-15 with the direct participation of more than 2,500 delegates and over 10,000 others online.

Vietnam has to date mastered about 90 percent of the ecosystem of cyber security products serving Party and State agencies, and is likely to be one among few countries mastering 100 percent of the ecosystem.

Vietnam should use artificial intelligence in more areas to boost productivity and to improve people’s lives, experts have said.

Viettel Telecom, a subsidiary of the Military Industry and Telecoms Group, took the lead among four mobile service providers in Vietnam in terms of mobile service in September.

Digital technology had crept into all areas of smart cities and directly contributed to improving management efficiency and urban development.

FPT experts have said digital transformation can help enterprises cut cost by up to 60 percent and time needed by between 30 and 70 percent, or even 90 percent in some specific stages.

The top 60 Vietnamese start-ups chosen from thousands of contestants competed at the semi-final round of the 2020 Vietnam Start-up Wheel contest in HCM City on November 13.