VOV.VN - Vietnam and Sierra Leone on March 16 inked a memorandum of understanding on cooperation to help accelerate the national digital transformation and training of digital human resources in the West African nation.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 8 received executives of the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) in Hanoi.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 2 demanded accelerating implementation of the project on developing and applying the population data and electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation.

VOV.VN - Microsoft announced on March 1 it has appointed Nguyen Quynh Tram, Google’s former Country Director for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, as General Director of Microsoft Vietnam.

Although it is put under control, the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit all aspects of the social life, seriously affecting businesses and people.

More than 463,000 people have used Mobile Money as of February 11, over one month after the Viettel Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) launched the cashless payment service.

The 5G services are projected to contribute 7.34% to Vietnam’s GDP growth in 2025, according to a research by the National Institute of Information and Communications Strategy.

VOV.VN - The ravaging COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years has forced many businesses to accelerate their digital transformation, with e-commerce being a lifeline to assist them to overcome difficulties and effectively respond to the new normal.

Half of students and teachers are expected to have sufficient access to online classes by 2025 under a project on the application of information-technology and digital transformation in education and training approved recently.

Digital transformation saw a remarkable progress last year, with awareness of this regard among State agencies, businesses and people significantly improving, according to Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunications Nguyen Huy Dung.