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The Hanoitimes - Vietnam is considered India’s key partner in Southeast Asia in India’s Act East Policy. Vietnam and India have decided to expand multisectoral cooperation as part of efforts to advance the comprehensive strategic partnership, according to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Vietnam's Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Indian counterpart Dr. S. Jaishankar. Photo: MOFA The two countries agreed to strengthen the bilateral ties by expanding the Indo-Pacific partnership and closer cooperation in emerging areas namely civil nuclear energy, space, marine sciences, and new technologies. This is in line with India’s Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) and the ASEAN’s Outlook on Indo-Pacific, to which, India invited Vietnam to collaborate on one of the seven pillars of the IPOI. This is significant in the backdrop of Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, including the South China Sea region, according to India’s media. The issues were discussed at the 17th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation co-chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Vietnam Pham Binh Minh and India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. At the virtual meeting on August 25, the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation between the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (SSIFS) in New Delhi and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in Hanoi, and an MoU between National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi and Scientific Research Institute of Sea and Islands, Hanoi. During the meeting, both sides reviewed the recent developments in the Vietnam-India Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2017-2020 and discussed the future trajectory of their wide-ranging engagement. Accordingly, they agreed to add new momentum to the economic and defense engagement ahead of the 50th anniversary of the bilateral ties in 2022. The co-chairs …

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Mai Liem Truc, former Deputy Minister of Posts and Telematics, believes that technology and digital transformation is the key to robust growth. Vietnam aims to become a developed country with high income by 2045. What role will the science and technology sector play in turning this into reality? All the industrial revolutions so far in history came from innovations and new technology inventions. For a long time, Vietnam stayed backward and poor because it could not take full advantage of the revolutions. Mai Liem Truc, former Deputy Minister of Posts and Telematics At the end of the third industrial revolution, while countries like India created a Green Revolution in biology, Vietnam still lacked rice. When Khoan 10 (household contracting) mechanism was applied, which allowed farmers to freely cultivate on their fields, Vietnam stopped the rice shortage period and became one of the world’s biggest rice exporters. In the telecommunications sector, Vietnam grasped the technology trend in 1980s and took a daring move to skip analog technology and go straight to digital technology. This led to strong development in Vietnam’s telecommunications, with Vietnam among the countries that soon began applying digital technology. However, it would be not enough if Vietnam only relied on technology and still maintained the natural monopoly. GPO made a daring decision on opening the telecom market to many different economic sectors despite controversy and certain obstacles. So, you may see that science and technology is a foundation and important key to development. However, whether to effectively use the key will depend on institutions and people. Which bottlenecks does Vietnam need to remove to develop the digital economy on the basis of science and technology, innovation, and the improvement of productivity, quality, efficiency and economic competitiveness? Previously, we carried out renovation, market opening and global integration on the basis of …

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Vietnam's digital economic outlook has been seeded on a fertile and potential land with a high rate of Internet usage and a developing technological infrastructure. Renewing mindset to enter the era of innovation. Photo: Pham Hai According to the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center, the number of domain names has reached 500,000; the ".vn" topped the national domain names registered in Southeast Asia, and was among the top 10 in Asia. - Pacific. The Asia-Pacific IP address management organization, APNIC, said that Vietnam's IPv6 application rate is about 40%, ranking 2nd in ASEAN, 8th globally, with more than 21 million Internet users. Vietnam’s digital economic growth rate was the second fastest in Southeast Asia (38% in 2019, behind only Indonesia); the value of e-commerce transactions increased 81% per year in the period 2015-2019, according to Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. Vietnam has actively approached opportunities from digital economy, built and completed legal corridors, and successfully deployed many applications of technology such as e-commerce floors, online travel, ride-hailing apps or e-wallets linked to domestic banks. . The Covid-19 pandemic has affected many economic activities that are based on traditional platforms, forcing agencies and enterprises to be bolder in research and application of digital platforms in management activities, production - business, powerful application of e-forms such as online delivery, electronic payment, online teaching... The government and businesses have generally adapted well to new economic models and activities; application of digital economy, and building of e-government, which developed robustly in recent years. Before the Covid-19 epidemic, about 40 ministries and provinces were connected to the national data sharing and integration platform, official sources said. This figure is now about 70. About 50% of ministries, central agencies and localities have …

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