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HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Vietnamese firms regardless of their scale need to get up to speed on digital transformation to enable them to further penetrate global markets, a webinar heard on August 26. Tran Phu Lu, deputy director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City, told the seminar titled Digital Transformation and Key Legal Points to Take Advantage of the EVFTA’s Opportunities in the Current Context that trade disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic have affected global investment and trade, and supply chains have been disrupted. Vietnam’s trade revenues were down 2.1 percent year-on-year in the first half of the year to 238.4 billion USD, with exports falling 1.1 percent to 121.2 billion USD.  Lu quoted World Bank experts as saying that in the long run, the impacts of COVID-19 and trade tensions could lead to a profound restructuring of global value chains, enabling Vietnamese firms to enter them. Vietnam is the EU’s 17th largest trading partner … [Read more...] about Vietnamese firms urged to embrace digital transformation to boost exports

At the moment, HCMC is preparing a detailed plan for digitalization and effective data use in governmental works. Electronic documents submitted for public services should be monitored via file management systems, while administrative files should be accessed and used by document mining ones. … [Read more...] about HCMC aiming at smooth digital transformation process

Hanoi (VNA) – The 2020 White Book on information and communications technology (ICT) of Vietnam is scheduled to be issued by December 20. At a meeting in Hanoi on August 26, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam requested relevant units of this ministry to ensure compilation quality and progress so that the document will be published before December 20. In the White Book, the first section is set to provide an overview of the ICT development in Vietnam and the world during the year, the message by the Minister of Information and Communications, along with the highlights and ranking of the country’s ICT sector in the world. It will also include articles on the importance of the national digital transformation programme to national socio-economic development, as well as orientations for IT and telecommunication development. The second section will feature data about the top 20 localities in IT revenue, the number of their IT businesses and … [Read more...] about Vietnam to release ICT White Book 2020

Besides, the 2020 White Book will also be added with the assessment of main outcomes of the implementation of Vietnam’s IT industry development programme for 2015-2019, an overview of the national digital transformation programme, and statistics about foreign investment in the IT sector./. VNA … [Read more...] about Vietnam to release ICT White Book 2020 in December

When reflecting on prospects for growth over the next three years, 32 per cent of CEOs are less confident now than they were at the start of the year in the global economy. When reflecting on prospects for growth over the next three years, 32 per cent of CEOs are less confident now than they were at the start of the year in the global economy. CEOs, however, are more optimistic about their own country’s growth prospects (45 per cent confident), and more confident again in the resilience of their own business over the coming three years. … [Read more...] about Talent and corporate responsibility top the list of CEO concerns amid COVID-19