Vietnam's capital Hanoi is set to provide free public WiFi service by the end of 2016, said Hanoi's department of information and communication on Friday.
The department said Hanoi is planning to install free public WiFi spots in many outdoor places to boost tourism, and for local citizens to look up traffic information, local VNExpress online newspaper reported on Friday.
Read more: Vietnam's capital set to provide free public WiFi service
All government regular procurement transactions and bulk procurement will be done via the electronic national bidding system by 2025, according to a master plan and a road map for online procurement in 2016-2025.
Under the master plan, which has just been approved by the Prime Minister, from now until 2018, the national bidding e-system will be upgraded to ensure its safe, stable and smooth operation.
Read more: VN: All government regular procurement to go online by 2025
The central city, in co-operation with Seoul city of Korea, will commence work on an information system on public works construction, Allimi, in Da Nang from 2016 to 2019.
Vice Chairman of the city's People's Committee, Tran Van Mien said the system will help boost transparency and publicity as it allows local people to supervise public work construction and investment projects.
Mien said the Allimi system will help develop exchange between administrations of Da Nang and Seoul in trade, investment, culture as well as sharing experiences in public works management.
Read more: VN: Da Nang, Seoul plan public works information system
Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn urged enterprises to send recent reports on 4G testing results as the Government had policies to accelerate the licensing for 4G this year.
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) held a review meeting for the first half of this year early this week.
Previously, many enterprises and localities have proposed to the ministry to grant 4G licence soon as the technology is a foundation for cities and provinces to implement e-Government, Internet of Things (IoT) and modern information systems.
Read more: VN: 4G to be licensed in the third quarter of 2016
Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang said that one of the city’s key tasks in the second half this year is to solve urgent requirements arising from the reality and meet legitimate aspirations of citizens.
At the sixth conference of the city Party Committee which wrapped up yesterday after one and half a day working, he said that despite many difficulties HCMC continued seeing moderately good economic growth in the first half this year.
Read more: VN: HCMC to focus on solving citizens’ legitimate aspirations