Hanoi (VNA)🌃 - Vietnam ICT COMM 2016, an exhibition of information and communication technology products, will be held in Hanoi from July 20 to 22.
The exhibition will showcase information and communication technology products, telecom services, Internet services and applications, as well as games, software, electronics and ancillary industries.
Some 150 exhibitors will take part in the event, including foreign and Vietnamese IT companies such as Ericsson, Frost and Sullivan, SimiTri Group and VNPT, as well as FPT, Google, Microsoft and Apple, besides Runsystem, GlobalSign APAC, Vietnamese FPT, and Vinaphone, in addition to Mobifone, Viettel and CMC.
Hundreds of businesses from foreign countries and territories will introduce more opportunities to develop cooperation among businesses.
There will also be seminars on developing mobile phone apps, network security, job-oriented consultations and ICT resource training.
The president of Ericsson Vietnam and Myanmar said this forum aimed to discuss how digital ICT transformation could be pushed in Vietnam in the most effective way.-VNA
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