UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen addresses the conference in Bac Kan province on July 17 (Photo: VNA)Bac Kan (VNA) – A conference was held in thenorthern province of Bac Kan on July 17 to connect ethnic minority women withpartners under a programme supporting them to develop economic activities via Industry4.0 technology.
The programme, supported by the United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP), will enable 450 ethnic minority women in Bac Kanand the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong to develop business and productionactivities and escape from poverty on their own.
They will have opportunities to connect withbusinesses, investors and policymakers via different activities.
This programme aims to create a technicalnetwork connecting local cooperatives and cooperative groups with potentialpartners to assist them to improve their capacity of applying Industry 4.0technology. The IT application will promote ethnic minorities’ production andbusiness efficiency, thereby helping with economic development and sustainablepoverty reduction.
At the conference, UNDP Resident Representativein Vietnam Caitlin Wiesen said the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)and digital technology hold huge potential which will create conditions forethnic minority women to swiftly improve their production and businessactivities and sustainably escape from poverty.
She also called on Vietnamese businesses to takeactions to make use of these chances.
On this occasion, the UNDP and the military-runtelecom group Viettel inked a memorandum of understanding on a cooperationframework for supporting Vietnam’s efforts to realise the SustainableDevelopment Goals.
Accordingly, the two sides will together seekchances for cooperating with ethnic minority women and businesses, includingthe application of Industry 4.0 technology to identifying and testing solutionsfor economic empowerment and poverty reduction in all provinces. -VNA
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