Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a project dubbed ‘Training for rural workers by 2020’ aimed at training one million rural workers, including training and retraining 100,000 public servants officials annually.
To implement the programme, Ministry of Home Affairs will train 204,167 civil servants in the country under its project called ‘Training and retraining of civil servants of communes by 2020.
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The project aims to provide multi-service broadband connection to boost telecommunication infrastructure and services in remote areas of the country.
“By 2020, internet subscribers in rural areas will account for 30-40% of the national average density,” the government said.
Director of the Department of Medical Services Administration Luong Ngoc Khue told Viet Nam News that a national telemedicine service and a synchronous electronic medical records system would be set up in four years' time under the plans.
The telemedicine service was awaiting approval from the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister and the blueprints for the records system would be completed soon, he said.
The overall target of the plan emphasizes international standards for IT human resources and the key role played by the industry, especially software and digital content as well as services, in GDP growth and exports.
IT industry is expected to contribute around 8-10 per cent of the country’s GDP and its revenue growth to double or triple the GDP growth rate by 2020.
It was announced at a seminar on December 17 that with the support of Intel, Da Nang will be the first city in Vietnam to benefit from ODCA’s end products in cloud computing and will establish an open-standard data centre to connect all data in the area for State and business management.
Pham Do Tuan, chief representative of Intel Vietnam said that ODCA membership would provide a chance to approach leading global information technology (IT) businesses, helping raise the city’s IT capacity.
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