Technology

Thousands of delegates from telecoms and IT firms and State management agencies from more than 100 countries and territories worldwide will attend ITU Digital World 2020 .

The Military Industry-Telecoms Group has set a goal of attracting an additional 10 million 4G subscribers in Vietnam this year, up to 62 percent compared to 43.5 percent last year.

Factors that form the foundation of an e-Government must be completed in 2020, which is one of the tasks in e-Government building for the year, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

The central city of Da Nang is piloting the use of automated paper delivery kiosks as an effort to boost the application of information technology in administrative reform to better serve enterprises and people.

Repair work on some international undersea cables is unable to be completed as scheduled, and it will take more days for Vietnam’s internet connection with the world to be fully recovered.

Like many other Asian countries, Vietnam is racing its regional counterparts to spur economic innovation with artificial intelligence.

Vietnam did not suffer from any cyber attacks that caused extensive impact or serious problems during the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Ho Chi Minh City will continue to promote the development of information and communications technology to develop into an innovative smart city and improve living conditions, authorities have said.

Vietnam’s telecom firm Viettel announced it is the 6th company in the world to manufacture 5G devices.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a directive to promote the development of digital enterprises in Vietnam with a target of developing 100,000 tech firms by 2030.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology announced the approval of the municipal People’s Committee for the selection programme of architecture design for the HCM City Centre for Innovative Startup.

Vietnamese agencies have joined hands with a French partner on the research and production of vaccines against the African swine fever and foot and mouth disease.