(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Party and State advocate for innovation and startups and the formation of start-up ecosystems in all economic sectors, including at universities and colleges.

(VOVWORLD) - If Vietnam doesn’t promptly make full use of scientific and technical advances from Industry 4.0 and doesn’t promote innovation and digital transformation, the strategic goal of making Vietnam a developed high-income country by 2030 will not be achieved, according to participants at the recent launch of 2022 Vietnam Innovation Challenge. This week’s Digital Life will bring you the opinions of a few experts on what Vietnam needs to boost its innovation and digital transformation process.

(VOVWORLD) - The annual program Vietnam Innovation Challenge, part of the Vietnam Innovation Initiative (InnovateVN), aims to call for cooperation among sectors to create innovative initiatives for a prosperous Vietnam. On the occasion of Tuesday’s launch of this year’s program, we talked to Rafael Frankel, the Meta Group’s Director of Public Policy for South and Southeast Asia, about Meta’s support for Vietnam on its journey of national digital transformation.

(VOVWORLD) - In last week’s Digital life, we talked about the data security risks posed by passwords and the current trend of passwordless authentication in Vietnam. This week we’ll continue our discussion of authentication that doesn’t require a password with Trinh Xuan Dat, an IT expert with MSIG Insurance Vietnam, a subsidiary of Japan’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company.

(VOVWORLD) - Verizon, a multinational telecommunications conglomerate, says passwords are the cause of more than 80% of data breaches and data theft. In Vietnam, millions of user passwords have been exposed because they are simple and easy to guess. In 2021, more than 800 phishing websites impersonated banks to obtain login information and steal money from users' bank accounts. Passwordless authentication will close this security loophole. This week’s Digital life will analyze data security risks posed by passwords. This is part 1 of our story about how passwordless authentication is making in roads in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Each year Vietnam earns more than 40 billion USD from exporting garments and textiles, of which Ho Chi Minh City accounts for more than 35%. The industry employs 3 million people. The sector’s biggest challenges are the changes of human resources and fierce price competition. Garment and textile enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City are counting on digital transformation to reduce the need for workers while increasing productivity.

(VOVWORLD) - A website called Vietnam Artist Booking (VAB) has been created to help artists contact and share with each other, protect their intellectual property rights, and interact with the public. It is the first e-commerce platform specifically for Vietnamese performance artists.

(VOVWORLD) -Aiming to produce high-quality technological products, services, and solutions, imbued with the Vietnamese values and the spirit of ‘Make in Vietnam,’ to serve the demand of Vietnamese businesses and the national digital transformation goal, Novaon Tech Company of Novaon Group has invested a great deal in research and development, upgrading digital solutions. Its determination, effort, and ability have been acknowledged by administrative agencies and thousands of Vietnamese and foreign businesses.

(VOVWORLD) - Digital marketing is an extremely hot field and has involved a growing number of companies in Vietnam. In this week’s Digital Life we talk to Nguyen Thuy Khanh Chuong, Strategic Director of aDigit Asia, and head of the digital transformation section of the Vietnam Digital Communications Association, southern branch, about Vietnam’s digital marketing and its potential.

(VOVWORLD) - Lang Son province has identified 5 pillars for realizing the National Digital Transformation Program locally: digital transformation within Party agencies, development of a digital government, development of a digital economy, development of a digital society, and development of a digital border gate. The achieved results in digital transformation illustrate the determination of the political system in building an administration serving the people and for the people.