(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the National Innovation Centre and US tech giant Meta Group have announced the Vietnam Innovation Challenge (VIC) 2024, aiming to seek innovative solutions from domestic and international organizations and individuals to develop Vietnam’s semiconductor industry. Themed “Innovation to Accelerate the Semiconductor Industry and AI to Go Global”, the event aims to honor solutions that improve the quality of the semiconductor value chain’s design, packaging and testing phases, with priority given to AI applications, and those applying AI technology to support business building and development and improve productivity. VOV talked to Rafael Frankel, the Meta Group’s Director of Public Policy for South and Southeast Asia, about Meta’s support for Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has been the third largest user globally, outside the US, of Khan Academy’s free online learning platform, Khanmigo, for school-directed learners in 2023, according to the Silicon Valley-based and non-profit educational organization. In this week’s Digital Life, we talk to Sandeep Bapna, Vice President of International at Khan Academy, to learn more about the chatbot tutor and why the Academy chose Vietnam for its mission to provide "free education anytime, anywhere".

(VOVWORLD) - The annual program called Vietnam Innovation Challenge (VIC) 2024 was launched in Hanoi on Monday, seeking to honor solutions that improve semiconductor value chain, packaging, and testing, as well as prioritize applications in AI and solutions that use AI to support business creation, development, and productivity.

(VOVWORLD) - Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.

(VOVWORLD) - What should Vietnam do to have high-quality human resources to serve the semiconductor industry which the Vietnamese Government has high expectations for? A project “Developing human resources in the semiconductor industry until 2030, with a vision to 2045″ is being urgently researched and will soon be submitted to the Government for approval. By 2030 Vietnam intends to train 50,000 engineers to serve the industry at all stages of the value chain.

(VOVWORLD) - 2023 saw new milestones in Vietnamese innovation, which moved Vietnam up 2 places to 46 of 132 countries and territories in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2023 Global Innovation Index. Vietnam’s National Innovation Center (NIC) played a key role in the achievements. What will NIC do in 2024 to sustain last year’s achievements? To find out, VOV24/7 talked to Nguyen Ngoc Dung, Senior Expert for NIC’s Entrepreneurship-Innovation Ecosystem. Ms. Dung, an advisor and mentor for Silicon Valley startups, spent 7 years working for the Office for Science and Technology at Vietnam’s General Consulate in San Francisco.

(VOVWORLD) - 36% of children have been exposed to violent images and information on the internet. Malicious and false information is a hidden risk and hard-to-spot traps are lurking for children who lack the skills needed to protect themselves in cyberspace. In this week’s Digital Life, we’ll look at possible solutions to protect children online.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has prepared the necessary infrastructure and conditions and is ready to develop the semiconductor industry, says Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung. The central government and localities across Vietnam have increased investment in this field.

(VOVWORLD) - There were some 13,900 cyberattacks in Vietnam in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%, according to a report announced by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - In recent years, tech startups have attracted a lot of attention from the startup community. But digital startups are a trend that has appeared just in the past 1 or 2 years. These enterprises use new technologies - artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things, blockchain, and cloud computing - to create new products or services or to deliver services in a new way. We will look at digital startups in Vietnam, their opportunities and challenges, through the story of ZSolution.