HCM City looks to corporate world for its digital transformation

VIETNAM, May 16 – HCM CITY — HCM City considers digital transformation one of its key tasks and wants businesses to be more proactive in offering efficient digital transformation solutions to it, its deputy chairman, Dương Anh Đức, has said. He was speaking on the “People Ask – Government Answers” programme on a topic called “Investment in digital transformation in State management to serve people and businesses” held by the People’s Council, the city legislature, along with HCM City Television and the Department of Information and Communications on May 14. The city sets its development goals based on technology and so steadily increases investment in digital transformation, according to Đức. It spent 0.78 per cent of its budget on digital transformation in 2021, 0.97 per cent last year, and it is expected to exceed 1 per cent this year. The city administration has instructed the Department of Information and Communications to comprehensively deploy core digital transformation applications and services, and pays close attention to developing skilled human resources to serve the digital transformation. Of the businesses in the city IT sector, more than 98 per cent are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is a huge resource for the […]

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