(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.

(VOVWORLD) - Hau Giang Province’s Vi Thanh City has hosted a digital transformation week for economic development in the Mekong Delta drawing 32 localities and more than 200 businesses.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has climbed 14 places to 62nd in the 2021 Government Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Index, according to an annual report released by the UK’s Oxford Insights in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). With an overall score of 51.82 out of 100, Vietnam ranked 6th in ASEAN.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s blockchain market is forecast to flourish in the coming months, driven by the government’s growing support, interest on the part of the business community, the sector’s high growth potential, and most important, blockchain’s wide applicability. In this week’s Digital Life, we talked with Dr. Dang Minh Tuan, Chairman of the Vietnam Blockchain Union, and Hoang Viet Tien, a representative of the Vietnam Internet Association, about Vietnam’s current blockchain development.