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Vietnam wins two ASOCIO Awards for 2021

Two Vietnamese firms were named among 35 winners of the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) Awards 2021 at a ceremony held in Bangladesh last week within the framework of the ASOCIO Digital Summit 2021.
Vietnam wins two ASOCIO Awards for 2021 ảnh 1A representative of Viettel received the award.(Photo courtesy of VINASA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Two Vietnamese firms were named among 35 winnersof the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) Awards 2021 at aceremony held in Bangladesh last week within the framework of the ASOCIODigital Summit 2021.

Accordingly, the telecommunications group Viettel was honoured with theOutstanding ICT Company Award while the Medlatec General Hospital won theHealthTech Award.

The annual ASOCIO Awards are prestigious IT awards honouring individuals,agencies, organisations and enterprises with outstanding achievements andimportant contributions to the IT sector in 24 ASOCIO member economies.

This year, the awards were presented in four categories including outstandingICT Company Award, Outstanding User Organisation Award, Digital GovernmentAward, ICT Education Award and HealthTech Award.

Previously, individuals and organisations of Vietnam received ASOCIO Awardsinclude Prime Minister Phan Van Khai (2003), FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh (2013);FPT Software Co Ltd and Vietinbank (2016); FPT Information System Corporation,Masan Group, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (2017); the Ministry ofFinance, the Quang Ninh provincial People’s Committee, MISA Joint StockCompany, and FPT University (2018); Vietnam Airlines, the CMC TechnologyCorporation, and the University of Science under the Vietnam NationalUniversity – HCM City (2019).

ASOCIO is an ICT federation organised by ICT associations representing 24economies throughout the Asia Pacific. Established in Tokyo, Japan in 1984,ASOCIO’s influence covers more than 10,000 ICT companies and representsapproximately 350 billion USD of ICT revenue in the region./.
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