Technology

Vietnam and Cambodia have signed three cooperation agreements on postal services and telecommunications, information security and digital signature.

The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education has not used such Facebook account.

The Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro held a ceremony in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on March 8 to welcome the first flow of oil it pumped up from Ca Tam field.

The second Indochina Retail Technology and Innovation Summit, a conference focusing on retail technology, is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7.

The National Innovation Centre is a hallmark in the national strategy on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Lan, Director of the Vietnam National University of Agriculture, has become the youngest woman to receive the Kovalevskaya Award, which honours outstanding female scientists.

The military-run Viettel is among only 50 telecom companies in the world to successfully deploy the narrowband internet of things, a technology developed for devices supporting IoT connectivity.

Vietnam will create conditions for the development of a sharing economy, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue said at a recent conference about the compilation of a sharing economy model.

Mavin Group, a food joint venture between Australia and Vietnam, is aiming to export Vietnamese duck meat in the future, given the increasing demand for this product.

Russia is willing to assist Vietnam in developing its e-government via free-of-charge consultancy, technology transfer, and training of experts, said a Russian official.

Hanoi is willing to cooperate with and learn from Russian enterprises’ experience in building an e-Government, said Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung.

Vietnam, like many other countries, is in a bid to spur economic innovation with Artificial Intelligence, but experts said the country is starting from at a low point and needs to make a huge effort.