Digital economy a big issue for VN: expert
Building a digital economy will be very important for Vietnam to keep pace with rapid technology developments across the globe, a senior Australian scientist has said.“We are not going to create prosperity purely on hard work. It will be smart work, which is connected to digital technology, that increases the effectiveness of the work that we do,” Dr Stefan Hajikowicz, senior principal scientist, strategy and foresight of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, said on the sidelines of a workshop on global trends and their implications on August 21st in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Vinh, vice president of Development Strategy Institute, Ministry of Planning and Investment, said Vietnam was still “groping its way” in terms of technology development strategy. “We do have policies but a lack of concrete mechanisms to turn them into real actions,” he said.
