Speakers speak at a seminar on “AI Research and Application in HCM City” held on Wednesday in the city. — VNS Photo Bồ Xuân Hiệp Viet Nam News HCM CITY — City authorities are planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) to further their scheme to develop a smart city, Nguyễn Thành Phong, chairman of HCM City People’s Committee, told a seminar on AI research and application on Wednesday. “Though the city has applied AI technologies in a number of sectors, it lags behind other cities in the world in AI research and training,” he said. “It lacks AI experts, scientists and policymakers.” Phong said the city should catch up with the global trend of AI. “Such efforts include investment in training skilled workers and building an open-source database.” In addition, training in the field remains limited because of a lack of funding, he said, adding that both State and business investments are … [Read more...] about HCM City to use AI to build smart city
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HCM City’s residents to benefit from smart city project
A view of HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. After one year of implementing the smart city project, authorities have achieved initial results. The project’s four key tasks were given priority, including a common-use shared database; a stimulation research and forecasting centre for socio-economic policies; a smart administration centre; and an information security centre. Information from many fields has been collected and integrated so that city leaders can easily grasp and evaluate the data, thereby shortening the time to handle work. Authorities have also launched a pilot open data portal for the city (http://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn). Vo Minh Thanh, head of the Information Technology Department at the city’s Department of Information and Communication, said the city would pilot providing information on … [Read more...] about HCM City’s residents to benefit from smart city project
Learning global lessons in smart city creation
By Tomaso Andreatta Vice chairman, Eurocham All of humanity is gradually concentrating in cities. In countries like Vietnam, with a youthful population and with recent experience of getting out of poverty, these tend to be fast-growing megacities of many millions of people. Today, more than ever, opportunities for employment, business, education, health, entertainment, shopping, and real estate investment are concentrated in cities. The connectivity among cities, both in terms of the physical moving of people and goods and data and information, is increasing fast. Many cities have a wide network of relations with peers around the world, not necessarily in the same country or region. The criteria for these links are mostly similarities in the structure, size, and leadership in solutions achieved. Devolution, whereby more responsibility is given to the institutions closest to the people they cater for, ensures that a greater share of revenue generated by cities stays there. However, … [Read more...] about Learning global lessons in smart city creation
City residents to benefit from smart city project
A view of HCM City. The city plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. VNA/VNS Photo Hằng TrầnViet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City plans this year to speed up a project to become a smart city by 2025 in order to better serve its residents. After one year of implementing the smart city project, authorities have achieved initial results. The project’s four key tasks were given priority, including a common-use shared database; a stimulation research and forecasting centre for socio-economic policies; a smart administration centre; and an information security centre. Information from many fields has been collected and integrated so that city leaders can easily grasp and evaluate the data, thereby shortening the time to handle work. Authorities have also launched a pilot open data portal for the city (http://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn). Võ Minh Thành, head of the Information … [Read more...] about City residents to benefit from smart city project
Open-sourced data considerably benefit Vietnam
Property of the whole society Reports from many international organizations show that Vietnam needs to gather necessary content to develop its digital economy. In particular, it should quickly create an effective digital database, form a corresponding legal basis, adjust the education system to have suitable human resources for this development, and build as well as manage the open-sourced data so that businesses and citizens can easily access this information. According to Vice Chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen, 80 percent of the population in HCMC possess smart devices, and the city has the greatest capacity related to information technology, both of which have become advantages for the city to develop its digital economy. Since HCMC is transforming into a smart urban area, the demand to access and make use of open-sourced data of administrative units, businesses, and citizens is so high that it is critical for the government to immediately build one, in … [Read more...] about Open-sourced data considerably benefit Vietnam