During the event, participants willdiscuss APEC’s important agenda for this year, including deploying prioritiesset at the SOM-1 and the outcomes of the High-level Policy Dialogue on HumanResources Development in the Digital Age, and proposing next orientations forSOM-3.
The same day, an APEC App Challenge,which is initiated by APEC Forum and co-organised by the Vietnamese Ministry ofIndustry and Trade, the Asia Foundation and Google, will be launched.
As part of events in the run-up tothe 23rd Meeting of Ministers responsible for Trade scheduled forMay 20-21 in Hanoi, the competition is expected to encourage interactionbetween APEC’s policymakers and young software developers.-VNA