Illustrative image (Source:blog.gemalto.com)Hanoi (VNA) – TheASOCIO Smart City Summit 2018 will be held in Hanoi from September 18-19, themed“Creating Smarter and Securer Cities by Digital Solutions”.
The event will be organised by thePeople’s Committee of Hanoi, the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry organisation(ASOCIO) and the Vietnam Software and IT Services (Vinasa).
During the summit, delegates willshare visions, strategies and experience in smart urban building, and collectopinions of managers and IT experts on smart urban management, planning anddevelopment based on new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), BigData, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality (AR).
They will also discuss solutions todevelop smart urban areas in Hanoi and other Vietnamese cities, helping dealwith pressing issues facing the localities regarding transport, urban areas,security, safety and environment.
The summit will feature seminars on digitalgovernment and strategies to build smart cities, and smarter cities with lesscash transactions; along with sections on infrastructure, platform – principlesfor smart city, data driven city – data analysis & urban planning and smartindustries.
In early August 2018, Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc approved a project to develop sustainable and smart cities.
With the goal of developing sustainable and smart cities, Vietnam hopes toboost green growth and sustainable development, bringing into full play itspotential and advantages, and increase the efficiency of the use of itsresources.
The country also wants to improve locals’ living standards, increase theeconomy’s competitiveness and step up international integration.
Until 2020, the project will work to build a legal basis for sustainable andsmart city development, issue policies and mechanisms applied to the regionssubject to pilot implementation, build and pilot the application of the ICTframework on smart city development, develop the GIS-based urban space datainfrastructure, and build a national city database.
By 2025, the first phase of the pilot implementation of smart city developmentwill be carried out, focusing on building and finalising legal corridors andregulations, applying the ICT framework to smart city development in Vietnam,announcing national standards prioritised for building smart cities anddeveloping the urban space data infrastructure.
The first-phase pilot is expected to be completed by 2030. Hanoi, Da Nang city,Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho city will be chosen to be the core of smart citynetworks in the northern, central, southern and Mekong Delta regions,respectively.
Hanoi is home to nearly 8 millionpeople, with an average density of more than 2,279 people/sq.km, even 42,000people/sq.km in some districts.
The rapid urbanisation and populationincrease have resulted in various problems relating to planning, traffic jam,security, health care, education, energy, housing development and pollution.
Given this, building a sustainableand smart city that ensures convenience, safety and hospitality for local residentsis urgent for the city.
The Hanoi People's Council has also issued a resolution on building asmart city, via the adjustment to the “Programme of applying informationtechnologies in State agencies’ operation in Hanoi in 2016-2020”.
The budget forimplementing the programme was lifted to 3 trillion VND (more than 127.7million USD) from 1.25 trillion VND, creating a foundation for Hanoi to promotesocio-economic development and become a smart city.-VNA
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