Full support for data industry to drive Vietnam's digital transformation: Party chief
The National Data Association convened its first national congress for the 2025-2030 term in Hanoi on March 22, with Party General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in attendance.
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| Party General Secretary To Lam and delegates at the congress. (Source: Vietnam+) |
Stressing the importance of data, the Party leader To Lam pointed out that digital transformation, with data at its core, is fundamentally changing the way people live, work, and develop.
He noted in its Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, issued on December 22, 2024, the Politburo identifies data as the core of digital transformation and a key driver of development. The resolution also outlines pilot policies to establish an initial legal corridor for promoting data development and utilisation.
He asked the National Data Association to promote its core role in building, developing, utilising, and enriching national data, focusing on the four pillars of people, location, activities, and products. He requested it to proactively apply, master, and advance towards self-reliance in core data technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), big data, blockchain, and cloud computing technologies.
According to the Party chief, data-based innovation challenge competitions should be organided soon to encourage the community to develop creative data-driven solutions and to create a platform that maximises human potential in science and technology. He also underlined the necessity to strengthen self-reliance in data technology, and prioritise, encourage and establish mechanisms to ensure that "Make in Vietnam" data technology products can compete fairly in the market, especially the international market.
Emphasising the association's role in several key programmes and initiatives, Lam stressed the need to develop a data market to support sustainable development, as well as establish a national data market and data exchange platforms to facilitate research, startups, innovation, and data-related products and services for sustainable socio-economic development.
The General Secretary called for support for accelerating the development of advanced data infrastructure, including data centres invested in by both the State and private enterprises. He also urged strengthening international cooperation, learning from global experience, attracting resources, and participating in global data initiatives, adding that it is necessary to build effective enforcement and monitoring mechanisms.
The establishment of the National Data Association holds great significance, he stated, expressing his belief that it will take the lead in implementing Resolution 57 and other resolutions on science and technology, thus enabling Vietnam to become a digital nation with digital governance, digital economy, and digital society based on the country's "accurate, sufficient, clean, and living" data.
Speaking at the event, General Luong Tam Quang, Minister of Public Security and President of the National Data Association for the 2025–2030 tenure, stated that the association will serve as a bridge connecting businesses, and foster a diverse and stable data ecosystem to support sustainable digital transformation across all sectors and lay a prerequisite for the country to enter a new digital era.
The National Data Association is tasked with connecting regulatory agencies, businesses, organisations, and individuals operating in the data industry. It aims to build a strong data ecosystem, helping promote the development of a digital economy and increasing the value of data in the national economy.
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