A view of HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. After one year of implementing the smart city project, authorities have achieved initial results. The project’s four key tasks were given priority, including a common-use shared database; a stimulation research and forecasting centre for socio-economic policies; a smart administration centre; and an information security centre. Information from many fields has been collected and integrated so that city leaders can easily grasp and evaluate the data, thereby shortening the time to handle work. Authorities have also launched a pilot open data portal for the city (http://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn). Vo Minh Thanh, head of the Information Technology Department at the city’s Department of Information and Communication, said the city would pilot providing information on … [Read more...] about HCM City’s residents to benefit from smart city project
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Learning global lessons in smart city creation
By Tomaso Andreatta Vice chairman, Eurocham All of humanity is gradually concentrating in cities. In countries like Vietnam, with a youthful population and with recent experience of getting out of poverty, these tend to be fast-growing megacities of many millions of people. Today, more than ever, opportunities for employment, business, education, health, entertainment, shopping, and real estate investment are concentrated in cities. The connectivity among cities, both in terms of the physical moving of people and goods and data and information, is increasing fast. Many cities have a wide network of relations with peers around the world, not necessarily in the same country or region. The criteria for these links are mostly similarities in the structure, size, and leadership in solutions achieved. Devolution, whereby more responsibility is given to the institutions closest to the people they cater for, ensures that a greater share of revenue generated by cities stays there. However, … [Read more...] about Learning global lessons in smart city creation
City residents to benefit from smart city project
A view of HCM City. The city plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. VNA/VNS Photo Hằng TrầnViet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. After one year of implementing the smart city project, authorities have achieved initial results. The project’s four key tasks were given priority, including a common-use shared database; a stimulation research and forecasting centre for socio-economic policies; a smart administration centre; and an information security centre. Information from many fields has been collected and integrated so that city leaders can easily grasp and evaluate the data, thereby shortening the time to handle work. Authorities have also launched a pilot open data portal for the city (http://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn). Võ Minh Thành, head of the Information … [Read more...] about City residents to benefit from smart city project
Open-sourced data considerably benefit Vietnam
Property of the whole society Reports from many international organizations show that Vietnam needs to gather necessary content to develop its digital economy. In particular, it should quickly create an effective digital database, form a corresponding legal basis, adjust the education system to have suitable human resources for this development, and build as well as manage the open-sourced data so that businesses and citizens can easily access this information. According to Vice Chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen, 80 percent of the population in HCMC possess smart devices, and the city has the greatest capacity related to information technology, both of which have become advantages for the city to develop its digital economy. Since HCMC is transforming into a smart urban area, the demand to access and make use of open-sourced data of administrative units, businesses, and citizens is so high that it is critical for the government to immediately build one, in … [Read more...] about Open-sourced data considerably benefit Vietnam
ICT Awards 2018 ‘For a smart, innovative, creative city’ launched
The Awards was established in 2008 by the HCMC People’s Committee. This year’s contest marks its 10th anniversary, with the expansion from four to six groups of awards for businesses, organizations, and individuals working in the fields of information technology, communications, ICT application as well as excellent students of those majors. According to Director Duong Anh Duc of the HCMC Department of Information and Communications, the number of prizes this year doubles the one of last year in order to encourage all participating teams. It is worth mentioning that the confidentiality of products in the contest will be guaranteed so that even startup people are able to register. The criteria of the awards related to startup businesses will focus on the potential and the commercialization capacity. In 2018, HCMC is running the major project ‘Transforming HCMC into a smart city in the period from 2017 – 2020, with a vision to 2025’, which is a great … [Read more...] about ICT Awards 2018 ‘For a smart, innovative, creative city’ launched