(VOVWORLD) - The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) has named Binh Duong province among the world’s top 7 Intelligent Communities with a typical smart city development strategy for 2023. ICF gathers a list of nearly 200 prosperous smart cities worldwide. Binh Duong’s efforts are recognized for their economic transformation towards innovation and digitization.

(VOVWORLD) - A seminar on turning innovation into the driver for building a digital economy in Vietnam took place in Nam Dinh province on Thursday as part of the first “National Forum on Digital Economy and Digital Society Development”.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam Innovation Challenge 2023 received 758 innovative solutions in digital transformation, 25% of which were from foreign countries with developed innovation ecosystems like South Korea, the US, and Singapore. The figure demonstrates that Vietnam’s investment environment and business community are attracting the attention of foreign corporations like Meta. In this week’s Business, we talk to Simon Milner, Vice President of Public Policy for Asia Pacific at Meta, about the company’s support for the Vietnamese business community, especially innovators.

(VOVWORLD) - The 12 best innovative solutions in the12 award categories of the Vietnam Innovation Challenge 2023 were announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - "Inno Vietnam - Japan Fast Track Pitch 2023", a new platform for start-ups and companies from ASEAN, Japan, and around the world to co-create open innovation, was launched in Hanoi on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - A total of 758 solutions in 8 fields from individuals and businesses at home and abroad were submitted to the Vietnam Innovation Challenge 2022, 60% of which came from start-ups, while the rest came from corporations and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.

(VOVWORLD) - 72 million Vietnamese people are using the Internet and each person spends 288 dollars for online shopping a year on average, according to the workshop "Digital economy: identifying, locating potentials and challenges" in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Innovative startup movements have been booming in Vietnam in recent years. Experts say that technology start-ups in Vietnam are mostly run by young, ambitious, and innovative people who dare to face challenges. Together with the Government’s supportive policies, the companionship of businesses, centers to support innovation start-ups, and experienced instructors, many digital technology startups have achieved success.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s exclusively homegrown smart Insect Monitoring System (IMS) is designed to meet the need for digital transformation in agriculture. The product won the silver Make-in-Vietnam prize in the category Excellent Digital Product in 2021. It was designed and manufactured by RYNAN Technologies Vietnam and employed in 13 provinces and cities nationwide. This year, the Japanese agriculture ministry has allowed the importation of the system to monitor and predict agricultural epidemics.

(VOVWORLD) - Digital transformation is an inevitable trend and a driving force for socio-economic development. Localities in Vietnam, including Quang Nam province, have carried out a number of solutions to speed up digital transformation. Quang Nam aims to be among the top 20 of 63 provinces and cities with the highest level of digital transformation in 2030.