Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung (C) speaks at the working session (Source: hanoimoi.com.vn)Hanoi (VNA) - US technological enterpriseshave proposed supporting Hanoi in building an emergency response centre, contributingto accelerating the city’s plan to turn it into a smart city.
During a working session with municipal officials in the capital on March 29, USfirms mentioned emergency communication-related challenges facing Hanoi, sayingthat locals’ access to emergency rescue services remains limited.
They detailed an integrated emergency information centre, which will work toreceive and process emergency information via a hotline number instead of thethree current ones.
The centre will aid citizens through collaborative technologies, emergency rescuesolutions and the building of geographic information systems in emergency management,they said.
In his speech, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chungstressed the building of e-government and a smart city is an important task forHanoi.
The municipal authority is working to establish a database centre with eightfunctions, including synthesising and using a shared-network system for thewhole city and one on land management, Chung said.
He noted that Hanoi has demand for security technologies and devices for thesystems and their applications.
Chung called on the US Trade and Development Agency and the US Embassy inVietnam to connect Hanoi and US leading technological firms, and promote theirinvolvement in authorities’ efforts to develop Hanoi into a smart city.-VNA
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