Amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Vietnam is boosting efforts and policy reforms to build up a digital economy. 

Vietnam strives to have at least 100,000 digital technology firms by 2030. It is expected that the digital economy would make up 30 percent of GDP by that time.

A recent draft decree from the State Bank of Vietnam raised eyebrows with its contents on ownership ratios for overseas groups when it comes to payment intermediary services. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now bringing immense prospects to Vietnamese enterprises to conduct digital transformation and smart production. 

South Korea’s New Southern Policy has brought changes in investment in Vietnam in 2019, facilitating a fourth investment wave across the country. 

The digital transformation is being considered the key to unlock sustainable development of livestock for the country, with large-scale breeding farms investing more in digital farming.

Applying technology in the retail industry is the next step in its evolution and will enable the offering of new experiences for customers while, conversely, retailers that are sluggish to update and innovate face being left behind. 

In the wake of an ageing population and the narrowing domestic market, Japanese businesses are expanding to the new fields of digital technology, healthcare, the Internet of Things, and services across the ASEAN, including in Vietnam. 

Seeing the growth potential ahead, many tech giants, such as Lenovo, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Huawei, are targeting the Vietnamese market.

It may be Sunday morning, but you’ll find Nguyen Viet Hung enjoying a coffee, and of course, keep up-to-date with work as he fastidiously checks his smart phone.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Ministry of Information and Communications to take a step forward in digital transformation as the country will announce the national strategy on digital transformation in 2020.

AkaBot – a robotic process automation (RPA) solution developed by FPT Software Corporation, has been named in the Top 30 RPA products in the world by the website https://rpahack.com/ of Japan

Allowing the "embedding" of fintech solutions into the ebanking app, banks may join the race to become "all-in-one" apps.

Digital transformation is shifting towards a new chapter – Chapter 2 – ending experimentation with artificial intelligence (AI) and moving simple workloads to the cloud at many organisations.

Startup support fund Next100 on December 10 signed a deal to invest VND10 billion in PushSale, a startup specializing in offering digital transformation solutions to online businesses.

Human resources is considered a key factor for a country in the process of digital transformation and trying to catch up with Industry 4.0. 

An ongoing issue in the digitalization of the agriculture sector is that IT workers know little about farming and farmers know little about IT.

Vietnamese pharma firms are increasingly investing in technological innovations to shore up sustainable growth, while international health technology groups are racing to seize the gains from these trends.

The goal of having 30 percent of online public services at level 4 may be unattainable if the building of e-government does not succeed.

A speech-to-text software application with accuracy of up to 93.6 percent was honoured on November 15 as the winner of the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2019 IT category.