The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on October 17 opened the municipal Digital Transformation Week 2023 in response to the National Digital Transformation Day 2023 (October 10).
Representatives from agencies launch Ho Chi Minh City's digital platforms. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committeeon October 17 opened the municipal Digital Transformation Week 2023 in response to the National Digital Transformation Day 2023 (October 10).
Within the framework of the event, departments, localities, andunits across the city will organise activities throughout this month includingthe celebration of the National Digital Transformation Day in the fields ofpublishing, printing and distribution and seminars on life-enhancing technology,smart business management, smart home - smart moving, technology and the futureof work, digital education technology and digital entertainment, and healthcaretechnology.
Vice Chairman of the Committee Duong Anh Ducsaid that the activities will help raise public awareness of the digital transformationprocess and its economic benefits and contributions to the city'ssocio-economic development.
At the opening session of the week, the event organisersannounced the city’s digital platforms in 2023 including a digital map, adigital institutional map, a data-driven governance platform, and a digitaltransformation index.
Visitors experience a digital technology introduced at the Ho Chi Minh City Digital Transformation Week 2023. (Photo: VNA)
Pham Tien Dung, Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam,said that data and analysis, exploitation and connection of data are key factors in creating the success of cashless payments and digitaltransformation in the banking industry.
He said the municipal Digital Transformation Week creates a useful forumfor managers and experts to exchange and share experiences to connect, exploitdata, and develop non-cash payment services, aiming to provide safe services andutilities for people and businesses in the city in particular and the wholecountry in general./.
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