Vietnam Digital Awards 2023 spotlight data potential unlocking
The Vietnam Digital Awards 2023, focusing on the unlocking of data potential, was launched by the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) on April 18.
The launch of the Vietnam Digital Awards 2023 in Hanoi on April 18 (Source: Organising committee)
Hanoi (VNA) – The VietnamDigital Awards 2023, focusing on the unlocking of data potential, was launchedby the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) on April 18.
Addressing the launch in Hanoi, VDCA ChairmanNguyen Minh Hong said that in this sixth year of the Awards, the organisingcommittee reserves special honour for outstanding products, services, andsolutions on creating, connecting, sharing, and using data in Vietnam.
The Awards will also continuecommending state agencies and enterprises in all sectors, not only the ITindustry, who have strongly carried out reforms and digital transformation intheir activities, he noted.
The Ministry of Information andCommunications (MIC) designated 2023 as the “year of data” with concrete tasksand targets, including building and launching databases of ministries, sectors,and localities; unlocking data; and protecting data safety.
Hong added the VDCA launched theAwards, sponsored by the MIC and implemented by the VietTimes e-magazine, as astep to help implement the Politburo’s resolution on some policies for active engagementin the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Government’s national digitaltransformation programme by 2025, with orientations towards 2030.
Dinh Van Hai, deputy head of theorganising committee’s standing board, said the Awards honour agencies, organisations,and individuals with remarkable achievements in five categories, namely excellentdigital technology products, services, and solutions; enterprises andnon-business units with excellent digital transformation; state agencies withexcellent digital transformation; digital transformation solutions for thecommunity; and foreign products, services, and solutions.
Entries should be submitted onlinevia the Awards website, www.vda.com.vn, between April 18 and June 30. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place inearly October.
Over the last five seasons, theAwards attracted nearly 1,400 entries and honoured some 350 agencies,enterprises, and non-business units, along with many outstanding digital transformationproducts and solutions./.
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The launch of the Vietnam Digital Awards 2023 in Hanoi on April 18 (Source: Organising committee) 
