The Government has urged the Ministry of Information and Communications to build a code of ethics on social networks for internet service providers and users to create a healthy networking atmosphere in the country.— (Photo: zing.vn)Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The Government has urged the Ministry ofInformation and Communications to build a code of ethics on social networks forinternet service providers and users to create a healthy networking atmospherein the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh made the request at a conference on the implementationof National Assembly resolutions on cyber security surveillance on October 30.
Binh said the Government had asked the ministry to develop a code of ethics onsocial networks operating in Vietnam such as Facebook and YouTube.
It had also asked professional agencies to cooperate with Facebook and Googleto remove false and misleading information that runs counter to the Party andState’s viewpoints, policies and political platform.
The Government had asked network operators to deploy new technical solutions toeffectively prevent the spread of false information on websites and socialnetworks with international domain names and hosting servers located in othercountries.
According to the report, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed the ministryto create a national cyber security monitoring centre. The centre, which waspart of the project on supervising the cyber security of IT systems to respondto cyber attacks, would automatically review, discover and evaluate informationon the Internet.
There are some 55 million internet users in the country, accounting for 57 percentof the population. Of these, 50 million access the internet via mobile phones.
Each user spends between 2.5 and seven hours each day on the internet, withFacebook and YouTube being the most popular websites.
Also in the field of information and communications, the Government hasinstructed the ministry to study and implement comprehensive measures onmanagement.
Mobile telecommunications enterprises such as VNPT, Viettel, MobiFone, Gmobileand Vietnamobile have been required to guide customers to update and registertheir information for better management. They were also encouraged to haveeconomic measures to boost mobile subscribers.
The government has determined that the digital content industry was animportant factor in sustaining the growth of the telecoms industry,contributing to establishing the country’s digital economy.
In order to develop the country’s digital content ecosystem, the Government hasdirected an overview of current status, development potential, barriers andlegal deficiencies to solve difficulties and promote digital content creation.-VNS/VNA
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