Deputy PM: VN strives to be a developed IT nation

Vietnam ’s information technology (IT) sector has become a key national economic branch and technological spearhead, contributing about 6.7 percent to the country’s GDP, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan.

 

Deputy PM Nhan made the statement at a conference in Hanoi on December 3 to review 10 years of implementing the Political Commission’s Directive 58 on applying information technology in national modernization and industrialization and implementing the project to turn Vietnam into a developed IT nation.


Deputy PM Nhan (standing) at the conference in Hanoi on December 3 to review 10 years of implementing the Political Commission’s Directive 58. (Photo VNA)
Deputy PM Nhan (standing) at the conference in Hanoi on December 3 to review 10 years of implementing the Political Commission’s Directive 58. (Photo VNA)

On this occasion, the Deputy PM highlighted the sector’s achievements over the past decade, raising awareness on the role of IT and its importance in society and widely applying IT in various areas. However, PM Nhan also pointed out limitations in applying IT in ministries and localities, such as the imbalance in providing fund for IT projects, the lack in human resource development and infrastructure for IT development; the hardware industry still relying on installing imported parts, the net intellectual profit of VN’s IT industry still low ….

In addition, the Deputy PM informed that the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has set forth 6 central tasks: to build an IT industry with rapid growth, promoting IT human resource development, contributing to building a national trademark and prestige in terms of information technology as well as attracting direct investment from strong countries…Furthermore IT must be applied effectively in government and business’  administrative management as well as in the research of new products, he added.

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