At the council’s second plenary session in Hanoi on November 25, Minister of Information and Communications (MoIC) Le Doan Hop proposed four strategic measures to make Vietnam a strong ICT nation including improving infrastructure for broadband services, training human resources in ICT for the development of the e-Government and e-citizen models, completing the e-Government project and focusing on ICT production.

Mr. Hop also emphasised the two main targets of setting up ICT corporations to meet the country’s demand and penetrating the global market in order to make Vietnam become one of the world’s top ICT nations in the near future.

Many experts wanted the MoIC’s project to be carefully considered before submitting it to the Prime Minister for consideration.

Although the ICT sector has had great achievements in recent years, hardware production does not meet the domestic demand and this is considered an obstacle for the development of Vietnam’s ICT industry.

Dr. Do Trung Ta, NCSTP’s chairman, said Vietnam should attach greater importance to building brand names in ICT as well as promoting the images of Vietnam’s ICT with high-quality products and services.