Data governance capacity, access to capital, information, and a search for experts are major barriers to Vietnam's digital transformation, besides the high costs.

On December 30, 2021, the Vietnam Information Technology Journalists Club (ICT Press Club) announced the 10 main ICT events in 2021 in which the imprint of digital transformation was outstanding.

The municipal authorities in HCMC are going through the digital transformation process to comprehensively perfecting all operations of state agencies here, aiming at establishing a digital government.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) should strive to build better cybersecurity infrastructure, capabilities and culture.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has agreed with the proposal by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on replacing the IT, electronics and telecommunications development program with a digital technology industry development strategy.

After the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite lockdown orders, social distancing, and direct contact restriction, there was not a complete collapse of socio-economic life.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has set a challenging goal of increasing the number of digital technology businesses from 64,000 to 70,000 this year.

Internet infrastructure in the country is set to receive considerable investment in 2022 to meet users’ growing demand.

Data administration capacity; access to capital, information and documents; access to experts; and costs are the major barriers to Vietnam's digital transformation.

“Make in Vietnam" is an initiative/slogan launched by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in 2019, aiming to promote development of the domestic ICT industry. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is taking place around the world with a boom in digital technology, creating great opportunities for but also challenges to the development of each country, enterprise, and person.

Four major goals have been obtained under the national program on TV digitization. Sixty-three cities/provinces throughout the country are covered with the second generation of Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T2) TV wave.

Tourism experts say that technology has become essential in hotel operations.

When talking about how digital transformation should proceed in a poor country, Ben Tre provincial People’s Committee Tran Ngoc Tam had a practical view: transformation will succeed only if people understand it and get benefits from it.

It’s necessary to be daring and set a high goal of exporting $50 billion worth of farm produce in 2022 as agriculture is a pillar of the economy, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a conference on December 29.

Digital transformation is taking place strongly in Vietnam. Tens of thousands of technology businesses have been established in a short time, promising to create new growth engines for the economy.

Since 2019, VinCSS has embarked on research and development of a "Make in Vietnam" ecosystem entirely on strong passwordless authentication with 07 complete solutions and is still being innovated.

According to data from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the number of mobile subscribers in 2021 is estimated at 123.76 million, including 92.88 million smartphone subscribers, accounting for about 75%.

The digital economy in Vietnam accounts for about 8.2% of GDP. The development potential of the Internet and digital economy components is still quite large. 

Vietnam expects to jump into the second position in the region in terms of digital economy, just following Indonesia, officials have said.