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• ASEAN ICT Awards 2017 celebrated in Hanoi

  The Hanoitimes - On April 21, the Ministry of Information and Communications hosted a ceremony in Hanoi to announce the ASEAN ICT Awards 2017 (AICTA). Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung made speech at the AICTA launching ceremony The AICTA, an initiative approved at the ASEAN Telecommunications and IT Ministers’ Meeting, aims to seek and honour creative ICT products and solutions that can be applied in reality, helping promote technological application and enhance trade relations among ASEAN countries. It features six award categories, namely public sector, private sector, corporate social responsibility, digital content, startup company, and research…... [read more]

• ASEAN ICT AWARDS 2017 announced

  The ASEAN ICT Awards (AICTA) is a project approved by the ASEAN Telecommunication Ministers. The project is in line with one of the six Strategic Thrusts, Innovations as stated in the ASEAN ICT Master plan (AIM) 2015 under the initiative 3.2 ‘Promote innovation and collaboration amongst government, businesses, citizens and other institutions ’. The awards includes six categories, namely the public sector, private sector, digital content, start-up company, research, and development. AICTA recognises the best ICT achievement among entrepreneurs across the ASEAN region, with an aim to be the benchmark for success in terms of innovation and creativity, offering business…... [read more]

• Vietnam attends ASEAN Telecommunications and IT Ministers Meeting

  Present at the events were over 300 delegates from the field of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from ASEAN countries and China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK). Vietnam’s delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Nguyen Thanh Hung. The annual TELMIN aims to strengthen ICT relations among ASEAN countries, while the TELSOM is held at least once a year for member countries to share information and experiences in developing policies and effective management. At the meetings, ministers again agreed that ICT is not only a factor to push economic development in ASEAN countries, but…... [read more]

• Regional meeting reviews ITC cooperation

  Co-organised by the Ministry of Information and Communications and the ASEAN Secretariat, the event, which will run until September 7, will discuss proposals and issues in the field as well as the progress of cooperation projects, and suggest new projects. Along with the cooperation among the ASEAN member countries, participating officials will focus on cooperation projects between the association and its dialogue partners, including India, Japan and the EU. Besides, they will also make preparations for the ASEAN Telecommunication and IT Ministers’ Meeting to be held in the Philippines in November. Addressing the opening session, Deputy Minister of Information and…... [read more]

• Việt Nam wins ASEAN ICT awards

  Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI - Viettel's Customer Insights software took a bronze medal in the Research and Development category at the ASEAN ICT Awards 2016 held in Brunei on November 25. This is the first time a Vietnamese product has won a big data international prize. The software surpassed more than 100 products from ASEAN countries and made it to the list of 18 finalists at the competition's final round in Yangon, Myanmar on August 22. This Viettel system, built in 2013 on the foundation of a Real-Time Big Data Analytics Platform (vRTAP), collects and analyses telecom customer needs,…... [read more]

• Vietnamese IT product wins gold at ASEAN ICT Awards

  Monkey Junior by the Early Start Company won gold prize at the ASEAN ICT Award after winning at the Vietnamese Talent Awards. Monkey Junior is a foreign language teaching programme for four to ten-year-old children with a huge audio-visual collection. It won the prize for Applied Products on Mobile Devices category at the Vietnamese Talents Awards on November 19. Nearly a week later, the product went on to receive the gold prize in the best start-up category at the ASEAN ICT Awards. This is the first time a Vietnamese product has won this category. The ASEAN ICT Awards (AICTA) is…... [read more]

• Weekly digest – November 23-29

  State President hails growing trade ties, friendship with Germany State President Truong Tan Sang and his German counterpart Joachim Gauck expressed pleasure at the rapid development of the Viet Nam-Germany strategic partnership at their talks in Berlin on November 25 (local time). The two State leaders agreed that the two countries have become not only strategic partners but also sincere friends with mutual understanding and respect. They stressed the need to strengthen visit exchanges and implement bilateral cooperative mechanisms in an effective fashion to create new momentum for a stronger strategic partnership in the time ahead. State President Truong Tan…... [read more]

• 15th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministers' Meeting closes

  (VOVworld) – The 15th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT) Ministers' Meeting (ASEAN TELMIN 15) closed in Da Nang city on Friday. The Ministers appreciated efforts to boost the digital economy in ASEAN by developing IT development management policies and a safe transaction framework as well as encouraging innovations through IT awards within ASEAN. They stressed the importance of collective efforts to ensure a safe information technology system in ASEAN and increase communications on cyber security and cooperative activities of the ASEAN Network Security Action Council. The ministers approved the Da Nang Declaration "Towards a Digitally-enabled, Inclusive, Secure and Sustainable…... [read more]

• ASEAN announces ICT development plan for 2015

  Ministers of Telecommunications and Information Technology from ASEAN countries agreed to give top priority to co-operation and development in a five-year road map to 2020, Minister of Viet Nam's Information and Communications, Nguyen Bac Son said in a press conference at the closing ceremony of the 15th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministers Meeting (ASEAN TELMIN 2015). "We all agreed to develop a sustainable and secure ASEAN community based on a digital and comprehensive community," Son said. "We mapped out ASEAN information and communications technology Master Plan 2020 (AIM 2020) with eight strategic ways for the digital economy, improving the…... [read more]

• ASEAN looks at IT development

  DA NANG (VNS) — Ministers of Telecommunications and Information Technology from ASEAN countries agreed to give top priority to co-operation and development in a five-year road map to 2020, Minister of Viet Nam's Information and Communications, Nguyen Bac Son said in a press conference at the closing ceremony of the 15th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministers Meeting (ASEAN TELMIN 2015). "We all agreed to develop a sustainable and secure ASEAN community based on a digital and comprehensive community," Son said. "We mapped out ASEAN information and communications technology Master Plan 2020 (AIM 2020) with eight strategic ways for the…... [read more]