Building a dynamic digital economy based on digital platforms, data, and AI
WVR - Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung signed Decision No. 1033/QD-TTg approving the Digital Economy and Digital Society Development Program for the period 2026 - 2030 (the Program).
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The goal is to build a dynamic digital economy based on digital platforms, data, and artificial intelligence; gradually forming new production methods, promoting innovation in growth models, enhancing labor productivity, and fostering green and sustainable development.
Simultaneously, creating a civilized, safe, and inclusive digital society, ensuring that all citizens have access to and benefit from the achievements of science, technology, and digital transformation, thereby improving the quality of life and happiness of the people.
Supporting at least 500,000 SMEs in digital transformation
Regarding the digital economy, the Program aims for the contribution of the digital economy to GDP to reach approximately 30%; supporting at least 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in digital transformation; having at least 5 digital technology enterprises on par with advanced countries; developing, promoting, and deploying at least 5 data platforms.
The value of cashless payments is expected to be 30 times the GDP. The proportion of university education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is to reach 40%.
Regarding the digital society, the goal is for 100% of households to have access to broadband fiber-optic Internet with a speed of 1 Gb/s.
Mobile broadband 5G is to achieve a minimum speed of 100 Mb/s, covering 99% of the population; 100% of Vietnamese citizens aged 14 and above to have electronic identification cards and accounts; 95% of the population aged 15 and above to have transaction accounts at banks or other authorized organizations; over 70% of the population aged 18 and above to have personal digital or electronic signatures; providing basic digital skills training for at least 10,000,000 people in the workforce.
15 key tasks and solutions
To achieve these goals, the Program outlines 15 key tasks and solutions:
1. Completing the institutional framework, building a comprehensive and transparent legal corridor to promote innovation, digital transformation, and the development of the digital economy and digital society.
The focus is on completing the data institution; developing the data economy; issuing controlled experimental mechanisms for new economic models based on science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation; promoting a healthy digital market competition; completing standards and regulations in line with international practices; enhancing inter-sectoral coordination and effective implementation.
Building, updating, and publishing a system of statistical indicators, measurement methods, reporting mechanisms, and sharing statistical data on the digital economy.
2. Developing fast, comprehensive, modern, safe, and sustainable digital infrastructure, ensuring universal digital connectivity and laying the foundation for the digital economy and digital society.
The state plays a leading role in investing in strategic digital infrastructure and essential public digital infrastructure; enterprises develop other digital infrastructures according to market mechanisms.
Promoting the development of broadband infrastructure, 5G and next-generation mobile networks, and low-orbit satellite Internet.
Developing computing and data storage infrastructure, including data centers, cloud computing, high-performance computing infrastructure, and AI service infrastructure.
Developing reliable digital infrastructure, ensuring cybersecurity; optimizing and smartening traditional infrastructure; promoting the development of green, energy-efficient digital infrastructure.
Enhancing connectivity, interoperability, and mutual recognition of public digital infrastructure domestically and internationally.
3. Developing shared digital platforms, national digital platforms, and digital ecosystems owned by Vietnam, prioritizing solutions to economic, social, and environmental problems that are inter-sectoral and inter-regional.
Encouraging businesses to apply digital platforms for management, production, and business; forming real-time data systems, enhancing service sharing and integration.
Encouraging businesses to develop digital platforms as a service model, open APIs, and interconnect, forming digital ecosystems for each industry and field.
4. Developing the data economy into a new resource and an important driver for promoting digital economic growth.
Focusing on building and developing national databases and specialized databases; constructing data governance models that promote data sharing and connectivity between the public and private sectors, facilitating the exploitation and use of open data, shared data, and processed, anonymized data according to legal regulations to develop digital products and services; developing open data and forming a data market in line with data architecture frameworks, governance frameworks, and data dictionaries.
Completing mechanisms and policies on data assets, ownership rights, exploitation, and distribution of data value; piloting data exchanges and data flow mechanisms, including cross-border data flows in compliance with cybersecurity and personal data protection regulations.
Developing data infrastructure, data industry, and platforms for data exploitation and analysis; organizing research and building methods for measuring the data economy to serve policy-making and promote data-driven innovation.
Creating scenarios for exploiting, using, and reusing data in socio-economic activities in the digital environment.
5. Promoting the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in industries and fields to enhance productivity, optimize operations, and innovate data-driven decision-making methods, ensuring AI ethics, safety, and privacy protection principles.
Each ministry, sector, and field identifies and implements key problems that can be effectively solved by AI to pilot, evaluate, and replicate successful models.
Enhancing support for businesses, especially SMEs, to access and apply AI in production and business, contributing to forming a widespread AI application ecosystem in the economy and society.
6. Ensuring cybersecurity to build digital trust in the development of the digital economy and digital society.
Completing the institutional framework on cybersecurity based on the principles of safety from design, development, and operation of digital infrastructure and platforms; deploying multi-layered protection models, enhancing monitoring and incident response.
Popularizing tools and platforms to protect citizens and businesses in the digital environment; building a network trust ecosystem and developing the cybersecurity insurance market.
Simultaneously enhancing national cybersecurity capabilities by establishing internationally standardized cybersecurity centers; issuing safety standards for new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, big data, and other advanced technologies.
7. Developing comprehensive digital human resources, including digital technology personnel, digital technology experts, and a workforce with digital capabilities; popularizing digital capabilities across society.
Training high-quality human resources in strategic digital technology fields; promoting lifelong learning and skill transformation for workers in line with technological trends and labor market demands. Promoting training models linked to practice and businesses, strengthening connections between government agencies, enterprises, and educational institutions.
Developing the labor market and mechanisms to attract and utilize digital talent and experts both domestically and internationally, as well as specialized forces ensuring cybersecurity in line with the characteristics of each sector, field, region, and locality.
Enhancing the ability to forecast human resource demand and career trends in the technology field; connecting labor and employment through digital platforms applying artificial intelligence technology.
8. Developing digital citizens and digital culture as the foundation for a safe, healthy, and inclusive digital society.
Forming digital citizens with electronic identification, safe digital capabilities, and responsibility; enhancing international cooperation, promoting regional initiatives on digital citizenship, and mutual recognition of digital capabilities and professional standards.
Developing safe, healthy digital platforms and social networks with a Vietnamese identity. Conducting comprehensive assessments of the impact of technology on economic, social, and cultural life to proactively control and mitigate negative impacts brought by technology.
Expanding utilities on the VNeID platform to serve citizens, businesses, and socio-economic activities; enhancing data connectivity and sharing between the National Population Database and other databases, gradually exploring the possibility of interoperability and mutual recognition between countries in the region.
9. Developing Vietnamese digital technology enterprises to become the core force, mastering strategic digital technologies, developing key "Make in Vietnam" digital product and service ecosystems, and reaching international markets.
Leveraging the leading role of large technology enterprises and state-owned enterprises to promote innovation and participate in global value chains.
Encouraging digital technology enterprises to proactively apply technical standards on cybersecurity and enhance coordination, exchange, and information provision with government agencies according to legal regulations.
10. Developing national digital governance based on data, transparency, and efficiency; promoting digitization, automation of management, and provision of public services to citizens and businesses.
Promoting real-time data-driven decision-making; completing digital platform governance mechanisms and policy experimentation; enhancing citizen and business participation and improving monitoring and evaluation effectiveness.
11. Promoting the development of modern markets serving the digital economy, focusing on innovation and technology markets, data markets, carbon credit markets, asset exchanges, and systems of independent valuation organizations, supply chain risk analysis, and warning centers; ensuring transparent, safe, efficient, and fair operations.
12. Developing the digital economy and digital society in sectors and fields: Agriculture; natural resources and environment; tourism; culture, sports; commerce; logistics; processing and manufacturing industry; energy; education and training; labor and employment; social welfare;...
13. Enhancing coordination between ministries, sectors, localities, enterprises, scientific and technological organizations, educational institutions, and economic entities in investing, building, exploiting digital infrastructure, platforms, data, and services; developing digital human resources; conducting controlled experiments with new technologies and services; enhancing sharing and replicating effective models.
Attracting high-quality technology, knowledge, and human resources from abroad associated with technology transfer; actively participating in international initiatives and agreements on the digital economy and digital society; promoting trade promotion and expanding international markets for Vietnamese digital technology enterprises.
14. Intensifying communication, dissemination, and raising awareness about the digital economy and digital society through forums, conferences, and exhibitions domestically and internationally; spreading the image of Vietnam proactively in the digital era associated with economic, social, cultural, and tourism development.
Developing communication channels, support consulting, Q&A, and virtual assistants to help citizens and businesses understand, access, use, and effectively benefit from digital technology.
15. Proactively researching, absorbing international experiences, updating new technology trends, and advanced development models to timely adjust and complete policies for digital economy and digital society development; ensuring the Program is open, flexible, and highly adaptable in the context of global digital transformation.
