Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung addresses the first Vietnam Open Summit on November 18 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Information andCommunications hosted the first Vietnam Open Summit, themed “Promoting nationaldigital transformation”, in Hanoi on November 18 in both the face-to-face andvideo conferencing forms.
The summit brought together more than 200 delegates,including senior officials in charge of information technology (IT) applicationat ministries, governmental departments, and agencies, as well as IT experts andrepresentatives from major high-tech corporations.
In his remarks, Minister of Information and CommunicationsNguyen Manh Hung said digital technology influences every aspect of life. Ithas become like oxygen, so must be as affordable as oxygen, and one way to ensurethat is to use open technology, which is not only open source but also openarchitecture and open standards.
Open technology goes along with an open culture, hecontinued, where everyone contributes to developing technology and shares the useof technology, and the price becomes cheaper.
Hung highlighted the importance of data during Industry 4.0,saying that most value in the future will be created by data. The more data andtypes of data are built, the more opportunities there are for new value to becreated.
As the people who have data and those who create new valuefrom such data are not the same in most cases, the provision of open data isdecisive in offering new value to people and the country, he said, adding the ministryhas launched a national data portal, at data.gov.vn.
Vietnam has built 5G based on Open RAN and become one of theonly five countries around the world able to produce 5G equipment.
Using open-source software will help companies reduce the timeneeded to develop software, improve product and service quality, and cut productioncosts, he said. Vietnam must develop human resources and create a market toallow it to reap the benefits from the application of open-source software./.
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