The intelligent operation centre of Vinh city. (Photo: baonghean.vn)Dung spoke at the two-day Vietnam Smart City Summit 2022, which opened on November30 in Hnaoi. The event was held by the Vietnam Software and IT ServicesAssociation (VINASA). The deputy minister said smart city development was theimplementation of digital transformation in the city scope with people being thecentre.
The Government has raised policies to promote the development of smart citiesto optimise resources, ensure sustainable development, protect the environment,ensure security and convenience for residents as well as acceleratesocio-economic development.
The Prime Minister in August 2018 approved a project on sustainable smart citydevelopment in Vietnam.
On November 11, the Government issued Resolution No 148 on an action plan toimplement the Politburo’s Resolution 06 on planning, construction, managementand sustainable urban development to 2030 with a vision to 2045.
The focus would be placed on restructuring the information technologyinfrastructure, forming shared platforms for urban areas, speeding up digitaltransformation in urban management and building e-Government toward digitalGovernment.
As smart city development was a long-term process and required significantresources for implementation, it was important to include it in the overallurban planning to ensure synchronous development, Dung said.
He pointed out that currently, localities mainly focused on developing andproviding smart city services and utilities associated with e-Government anddigital Government but did not pay adequate attention to planning and smartcity management to solve fundamental problems of urban development includingtraffic, energy, and environment.
Thus, the efficiency in smart city development was not as high as expected interms of improving the quality of life and the satisfaction of the people, hesaid.
Nguyen Van Khoa, VINASA’s President, said that Vietnam had large potential andopportunity for smart city development. However, the biggest difficulty was thelack of a clear and transparent legal framework, especially in public-privatepartnerships and procedures for investment, bidding and IT services provision.
Moreover, urban areas had not paid attention to smart planning and basicinfrastructure, Khoa said.
Nguyen Nhat Quang, Director of the VINASA Science and Technology Institute,said it was important to develop requirements of smart cities for urbanplanning.
To date, 54 out of 63 provinces and cities were implementing smart cityprojects at different stages. 30 provinces and cities approved smart citydevelopment projects/programmes/plans, 15 approved ICT architecture for smartcity development, 38 implemented provincial intelligent operation centres(IOCs), 21 implemented urban-level and municipal IOCs, 17 implemented apps forsmart tourism services and more than 10 implemented apps for smart traffic,controlling and urban order./.
VNA
