The contest “Make in Vietnam digital products” is about to start. Expected to take place under the chairmanship of Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam, in addition to the bridge point at the headquarters of the Ministry of Information and Communications, the press conference to announce and launch this year’s awards is also connected to 5 bridge points at the provincial Departments of Information and Communications. , cities include: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. In the second year of being held, according to the Award Regulation signed by the Minister of Information and Communications on June 7, “Make in Vietnam Digital Products” in 2021 continues to have 5 categories, including: Excellent digital platform; Excellent digital products; Excellent digital solutions; Narrowing the digital divide; Potential digital products. The second “Make in Vietnam Digital Product” Award will have Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for the categories of Excellent Digital Platform; Excellent digital products; Excellent digital solutions; Close the number gap. As for the category “Potential digital products”, this category only applies to participating units that are non-business organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises or creative start-ups and only the Top 10 are announced. The organization is expected to invite leaders of the Party, State and Government to award prizes to enterprises with high prizes. Products honored at the “Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Product” award in 2021 must satisfy two main groups of criteria, namely: design, creativity in Vietnam and practical value. In the criterion group “Actual value”, the score structure related to revenue, the number of users is 40 (accounting for about 70%). The award also encourages digital technology products of small and medium enterprises and innovative start-ups in the category of “Potential Digital Products”. Regarding the process of reviewing and awarding this year’s awards, the representative of the Organizing Committee said that at the preliminary stage, the subcommittees of the Jury Council will organize grading of documents that meet the criteria through the pre-qualification round. select 12 records with the highest score of each award category. The participating units with records in the group of 12 records with the highest score of each category will present and defend in front of the respective Committee’s Sub-Committees (in person or online) to the Sub-Committees. The evaluation board selects the Top 10 records in order of scores from high to low of each category. At the final round, based on the list of nominations of the subcommittees, the Jury Council held meetings to evaluate and select the Top 10 and the Gold, Silver, and Bronze prizes for the 4 categories of Awards and Top 10. 10 potential digital products. According to the Organizing Committee, the time to receive registrations and applications for the award will last from June 20 to the end of September 20, 1 month longer than the 2020 prize. During the period from June 20 to July 20, businesses can make preliminary registration and receive guidance from the award standing body to prepare documents according to the Award Regulations. Units and businesses send their documents online at the portal with the addresses: makeinvietnam.mic.gov.vn and makeinvietnam.vcci.com.vn.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung. Speaking at the online conference on state management in the second quarter of 2021 held recently by the Ministry of Information and Communications, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized the need to clean up cyberspace. The head of the Ministry of Information and Communications noted that localities, ministries and branches must closely monitor and make the cyberspace in their localities and their industries clean and healthy. “In the real world we have been doing pretty well, we have to do the same thing in the digital world,” Hung said. The leader of the Ministry of Information and Communications also pointed out the fact that many ministries, branches, localities and some Departments of Information and Communications have not actively participated in cleaning up cyberspace. Cyberspace is the space of all fields, all ministries, branches and localities, it is not the space of the information and communication industry. “Many gaps exist in cyberspace and are being exploited. A lot of individuals and organizations are being hurt in cyberspace and this ‘pain’ is the first responsibility, first of all, of the Ministry of Information and Communications. “, said Minister Nguyen Manh Hung. Affirming the responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communications to maintain the health of this new space, the Minister assigned Deputy Minister Hoang Vinh Bao and Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung to discuss with each other so that this July, they will issue instructions on how to do and necessary tools to ensure the health of the entire country’s cyberspace, promulgating documents related to other ministries, branches, localities and other fields. Minister Nguyen Manh Hung requested that one of the things that needs to be done immediately to ensure the health of cyberspace is the movement of individuals, businesses, and organizations… to clean platforms. The Ministry of Information and Communications has to do the task of evaluating and announcing clean platforms. Departments and departments in charge of any field will set evaluation criteria and announce clean platforms in their fields. “The press and media system of the whole country must actively propagate and propagate daily so that people, organizations and businesses move to a healthier environment. Although we are late, we must strongly clean up the living environment in cyberspace and don’t leave it too late,” the Minister emphasized. Regarding the issue of “telecommunications garbage”, at this meeting, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung assigned Deputy Minister Phan Tam to take the strongest measures to thoroughly handle in 2021 the problem of junk SIM, news Spam messages, spam calls… “Mobile phone numbers will be used as digital identifiers, user identifiers on social platforms, mobile money payments, so the phone number must be correctly identified,” Minister Nguyen Manh Hung pointed out. religion.

The Sao Khue Award after 18 years of organization, up to now has honored about 1,270 products, of which 180 products in 2021. With the mission of “Promoting digital solutions platforms – Pioneering in the development of digital ecosystems”, Sao Khue Award for the first time this year selected the group “Digital transformation platforms”. In particular, the year 2021 is the first year of implementing the 5-year plan for Vietnam to get rid of low-middle income, implementing the 10-year Strategy to become a middle-income country. The year 2021 is also the first year of the 25-year aspiration of becoming a highly integrated developed country and starting the digital transformation process, so this year’s Sao Khue award-winning products are believed to create a launch pad. pushes your digital transformation comprehensively. Sao Khue Award Ceremony 2021 (Photo: VNA) “The Ministry of Information and Communications highly appreciated the efforts of VINASA successfully organized the Sao Khue 2021 award in many difficulties and challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, Sao Khue Organizing Committee quickly introduced the criteria of 4.0 technology and added digital transformation items to the award system, in accordance with the policies of the Party and State as well as of the Ministry of Information. and media. Great digital technology awards such as Sao Khue Award will be a factor contributing to the propaganda of gathering resources of the whole society together to unanimously achieve strategic goals ”, Mr. Phan Tam, Thu Minister of Information and Communication emphasized. The number of nominations for the Sao Khue Award this year has increased by nearly 60% compared to last year, showing that the digital technology community in our country is increasingly promoting the nuclear role in the digital transformation process based on platforms. Make in Vietnam platform. “This year, the number of nominations has increased dramatically and the products are diverse. In particular, many businesses choose technology products to meet Vietnam’s hot issues, such as healthcare. In addition, the application of a number of technologies is not new compared to previous years, but in a very new field, for example in the field of entertainment or volunteering. Demonstrate that the digital transformation of the Made in Vietnam policy is spreading throughout Vietnam. VINASA has also supported “Made in Vietnam flames” throughout the territory, “said Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communications. Top 10 Sao Khue with products in 6 groups of awards such as: Digital products, solutions; Digital conversion platforms; New technology solutions for all sectors; Digital startup products and solutions … will be supported by the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (VINASA), connecting with technology partners to build Sao Khue Ecosystem. On that basis, award-winning products can reach users faster, forming complete digital ecosystems for Vietnamese people, helping to accelerate the process of national digital transformation. “18 years ago, we celebrated Sao Khue for the first time and after 18 years, today we have 180 Sao Khue awards. 18 years of extremely rapid development, forming the largest industry in the country. . The information technology industry has accounted for 14.3% of GDP and the growth rate over the past few decades has been 37%, the labor productivity of the industry is 7.6 times higher. We are proud that over the past 18 years, Vietnam has been named on the digital map of the world. Today, we are entering a term of digital transformation of great challenges awaiting Vietnam has never had such a great opportunity, Vietnam has never started in the same line with the advanced countries in the world ”, said Mr. Truong Gia Binh, Chairman of VINASA Founding Council. Realizing the aspiration of digital transformation based on Make in Vietnam technology platforms, promoting industries and fields entering the digital transformation stage will continue to be focused on building by State management agencies. more appropriate strategies and policies. It is expected that this year, the Ministry of Information and Communications will submit to the Government for promulgation the Strategy for digital infrastructure development, the Strategy for the development of digital postal infrastructure, the Strategy for the development of digital technology enterprises, the Strategy Development of Digital Government, Strategy of Digital Socio-Economic Development, Strategy of Cyber ​​Security, Strategy of Digital Transformation of the Press Industry./.

180 excellent IT platforms, services and solutions have just been awarded Sao Khue Prize 2021. Photo: HQ On April 24, in Hanoi, Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services (VINASA) held a ceremony to announce and award Sao Khue Prize 2021. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications (TT&TT) Phan Tam said that 2021 is the first year of implementing the national strategies of the ICT industry: digital infrastructure development strategy, strategy postal infrastructure development, digital enterprise development strategy, digital government development strategy, digital society and digital society development strategy, national cybersecurity strategy, transformation strategy change of press number. “These strategies, the Ministry of Information and Communications will strive to submit to the Government for promulgation in 2021. Enterprises and associations in the industry including VINASA will join hands to build and implement” – Deputy Minister said. The Deputy Minister appreciated that the Organizing Committee quickly added the criteria of technology 4.0, digital transformation into the criteria system of the award, in accordance with the policies of the Party, State and Ministry of Information and Communications. Sao Khue Award 2021 has set a “record” with nearly 300 nominations from 161 enterprises, an increase of 57.8% compared to 2020. This is the largest number of nominations and registered businesses. since the program was born to present. As a result, through 3 evaluation rounds, the jury selected 180 excellent IT platforms, services and solutions to award Sao Khue Prize 2021. According to the statistics of the organizers, 9 enterprises owning the Top 10 nominations of 2021 awards have a total revenue of 367,450 billion VND in 2020, equivalent to nearly 16 billion USD, and create jobs for 63,453 employees. Particularly, sales of 10 products and solutions are over 2,100 billion VND. In addition to the excellent technology, methodical investment, and clear business development strategy, most of the Top 10 Sao Khue 2021 are considered and appreciated for the creation of new services, values. new for the organization, for customers and for society. Mr. Truong Gia Binh – Chairman of VINASA Founding Council, Head of the Prize Organizing Committee said that in general, products and services participating in Sao Khue 2021 have growth and innovation in investment and development. products, most of which are raised to a new level with new technologies: AI, Cloud, Big Data, IoT, Blockchain … “Many digital technology products and services with the right trends and market demands of key economic sectors have achieved very high revenue growth of hundreds or even thousands of% in 2020. This These are the bright spots that have a spillover effect of the digital economy, contributing to Vietnam’s impressive growth performance in the past year, which is highly appreciated by the world “- Mr. Binh information./.