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According to the 2004 ratings, the country has an index of 0.3378, down 15 positions from the previous year.

The country climbed 14 places compared to the last survey in 2005, scoring an index of 0.4558 of the total 1.000, according to the survey which was carried out by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations Secretariat.

The e-government readiness index shows a country’s application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in providing information, products and services to its citizens.

Vietnam has moved up one place to rank 88th among the 193 countries in the United Nations E-Government Survey 2018.

Vietnam scored High in the Online Services Index (OSI) and E-Participation Index (EPI) (up from 0.5 points to 0.75 points).

In the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam was ranked sixth after Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Brunei.

The Vietnam on World IT map 2008 report by the Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association last week said the country has made remarkably improvements in United Nations Public Administration Network or the UNPAN’s e-government index.

Vietnam’s 91st ranking in the 2008 e-government index is 16 grades higher than previous years. Of which, the Vietnam’s Web Measure index was 0.4448, higher than 0.2231 of 2005 and its telecommunications infrastructure index was 0.1081 compared to 0.0489 in 2005.

• Vietnam ranked 86th in a new e-government ranking by the United Nations, but the country has ambitious plans to become a digital society by the next decade.
• Both public and private sectors seized opportunities to accelerate innovation during the pandemic, but there had already been some successes before then.
• Conditions are favorable for businesses especially in the tech sector, but legal barriers, security issues, and a global recession are challenges to be considered.

On July 10, 2020, the United Nations released its E-Government Survey 2020. With an overall score of 0.66 on the E-Government Development Index (EGDI), Vietnam moved up two places from last year and was ranked 86th among 193 member states. Though Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, and the Philippines scored higher, Vietnam has so far already made some substantial improvements on e-governance and hopes to be among the top four Southeast Asian nations by 2025.

Global e-government rankings affect Vietnam’s investment attractiveness, national competitiveness, and negotiations on international trade deals, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a recent meeting.

Vietnam is ranked 89th overall among 193 countries in the United Nations E-Government Survey 2016. Its rankings in three component categories are 74th in the Online Service Index, 110th in the Telecommunication Infrastructure Index, and 127th in the Human Capital Index.

Hanoi was ranked among the world’s 100 smartest cities, according to the 2024 Smart City Index. The index was produced by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Center’s Smart City Observatory in collaboration with the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO).

This year, Hanoi ranked 97th, up 3 places compared to last year. This result is partly due to the city’s initial achievements in digital transformation. For the first time, municipal leaders used completely digital signatures on a shared software for the administrative system. All state agencies in the capital city have applied digital signatures. A number of shared information databases have been deployed to administrations at all levels to better serve internal operations and handle administrative procedures.

The capital of Hanoi was named the world’s 97th smartest city, moving up three places from its ranking in 2023, according to the 2024 Smart City Index.

The index was produced by the Swiss business school Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Centre’s Smart City Observatory in collaboration with the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO). It listed 142 cities in all and graded them on the basis of how they use advanced technology to improve the lives of their citizens.

Both Hanoi and HCM City received a rather poor scores of CCC in the Technology aspect, while in terms of Structures, the capital city Hanoi fared a little better than the southern economic center (CC compared to CCC).

Hanoi earned the 97th position in a global smart city ranking, up three places compared to last year, while HCM City slid down two places to 105th.

Hanoi has moved up three places from last year to reach 97th in the 2024 Smart City Index, as compiled by the International Institute for Management Development of Switzerland.

In Asia alone, Hanoi ranks 20th out of 28 cities, behind several cities such as Bangkok (Thailand), Osaka (Japan), and above some cities such as Jakarta (Indonesia), and Mumbai (India).

Ho Chi Minh City ranked second out of 63 provinces and cities in the country in terms of the 2022 digital transformation index (DTI), the Information and Communications Ministry has announced.

According to a report of the Ministry of Information and Communications, the digital economy contributed about 18.7% of the city's gross regional domestic product (GRDP) last year.

Results from a survey on e-government announced in the Vietnam Digital Economy Forum 2018 showed that Vietnam stands at the 88th position among 193 nations with 0.59 point, ranking the above average.

According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phuc, Director of the Authority of Information Technology Application under the Ministry of Information and Communications, among the 3 criteria in the evaluation, Vietnam achieved the highest point in online administrative services, followed by human resources and telecommunications infrastructure.

The report, covering 122 countries, ranks Russia 70th in its assessment of "the impact of information and communication technology, or ICT, on the development process and the competitiveness of nations for the year 2006-2007."

Overall, the Sixth Annual E-Readiness Rankings Report, sponsored by IBM's Institute for Business Value, was upbeat, stating: "For perhaps the first time since the technology bubble burst, the global economy is beginning to feel comfortable in a digital skin. Spending on information and communications technology (ICT) is growing again with some buoyancy in developed markets. In emerging markets, expansion of connectivity — individuals' and organizations' access to voice and data communications — continues on a rapid ascent. Broadband Internet access, meanwhile, is reaching critical mass in several countries and becoming a catalyst for other improvements in the digital economy."

Zu diesem Schluss kommt das Weltwirtschaftsforum (WEF) in Genf, das alljährlich in Davos tagt, in seinem am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Bericht zur Informationstechnologie. Deutschland ist von Rang 20 im vergangenen Jahr auf Platz 14 vorgerückt. Auf den Plätzen zwei und drei folgen Singapur und Dänemark, das die Spitzenposition in den vergangenen drei Jahren bekleidet hat. Die Schweiz liegt auf Platz vier, die USA haben den fünften Rang inne.

What the new UN rankings tell us about the best performing digital governments, and why some nations – like Singapore – have tumbled.

The UN has just published the 2018 edition of its e-Government survey. While Europe continued to dominate the top spots (Denmark is number 1), Asia’s leading nations did well. Digging beneath the numbers, the qualities that leading e-government nations seem to share are not what they do but how they do it.

The United States moved up a single spot – from 12th to 11th -- in the most recent United Nations E-Government Survey, a measure of how well a country is implementing e-government practices. In 2003, the first year the survey was conducted, the U.S. topped the list.

The survey tracks progress based on its E-Government Development Index that assesses telecommunications infrastructure, human capital and online services delivery and places counties into one of four categories: very high, high, middle and low. The United States scored in the “very high” category overall. Denmark, Australia and the Republic of Korea had the three highest scores.