Ho Chi Minh City has approved a programme to build an eco-system for research into artificial intelligence (AI) development over the next 10 years as part of its efforts to become a smart city and promote digital transformation.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam International Trade Fair 2021 (Vietnam Expo 2021) is scheduled to be held between April 14 and April 17 in Hanoi, according to details released by the National Trade Fair And Advertising Joint Stock Company (Vinexad).

Vietnam should develop a generation of young entrepreneurs in the timber industry, and consider it a sector for startups, said President of the Handicraft and Wood Industry Association (HAWA) of HCM City Nguyen Quoc Khanh.

Vietnam’s leading IT services provider FPT Software, a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, and Smart Holdings of Toyota Group have recently launched FPT Smart Technologies - a joint venture providing digital transformation services and solutions.

Logistics, considered a backbone of Vietnam’s economy, is among eight sectors prioritised by the national programme for digital transformation until 2025.

VOV.VN - Despite changes in half a century, the main role of ABU, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, is to promote solidarity, peaceful cooperation, mutual understanding and partnership between countries, organisations and people, says PhD Javad Mottaghi, ABU Secretary General.

Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones, should embrace digital transformation to survive but also improve their production and trading processes and business efficiency in the industry 4.0 era, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent seminar heard in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam ranked 55th in digital transformation with 41 points in Huawei's Global Connectivity Index (GCI 2020).

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) will step up the application of information technology, and carry out digital transformation in a comprehensive manner so as to better serve businesses and people, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) officially rolled out a programme supporting the digital transformation of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), called SMEdx, in Hanoi on January 29.