The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism’s Vietnam National Authority of Tourism (VNAT) has announced that the sector is actively pushing forward digital transformation via building a smart tourism ecosystem, a strategic move designed to improve State management and the overall tourist experience.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested developing the collective economy in terms of both quanity and quality while chairing a forum on the cooperative economy and cooperatives in Hanoi on February 2.

VOV.VN - It remains imperative to devise solutions to effectively exploit new growth drivers such as promoting the digital economy, the green economy, the circular economy, and innovation, whilst also creating jobs and livelihoods for people, along with dealing with production chain breaks and engaging in more deeply in the global supply chain.

VOV.VN - A centre for digital transformation (DXCentre) was recently established in Ho Chi Minh City with the aim of supporting agencies, organisations, and enterprises in going digital whilst studying, piloting, and transferring digital technology products.

Vietnam’s Mobile World Investment Corporation (MWG) opened the 50th store of EraBlue – its joint venture with Indonesia’s leading technology retail provider Erafone – in Tangerang, Indonesia on January 23.

The average annual growth in the number of transactions via QR code has reached 471.13% since the payment method's introduction in 2018, 77.41% of the Vietnamese adult population possess payment accounts with commercial banks reporting over 90% of all transactions conducted through digital channels, with some banks achieving a rate of up to 98%.

Enhancing the quality of the workforce, promoting regional linkages, and developing science, technology, innovation and digital transformation are keys to Vietnam's focus on improving labour productivity in the coming decades, according to the recently approved National Programme on Labour Productivity Enhancement by 2030.

Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Dao Minh Tu said at the press conference on January 3 that the central bank will not consider increasing operating rates and might extend debt rescheduling policies to support enterprises this year.

Generative AI is expected to contribute VND14 trillion (US$574.83 million) to the Vietnamese digital economy by 2030, Dang Huu Son, co-founder of LovinBot AI and Vice Chairman of the local digital human resources development alliance AIID, has said.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) plays a significant role in the positive development of digital transformation in Vietnam in 2023, stressed Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang at the body’s December 29 conference of year-end review and new-year task deployment.