After more than 5 years since the Da Nang People's Committee issued Decision No. 6439/QD-UBND dated December 29, 2018 on project to build Da Nang into a smart city during the 2018-2025 period, with a vision to 2030, the city has achieved many positive results, basically completing specific goals.
Convenient for dwellers and businesses
As recorded at the Lien Chieu District-based Medical Centre on the morning of August 1, most visitors used smartphones to open QR code of their health insurance cards on the Vietnam Social Security (VssID) app instead of using paper cards as before.
Read more: VN: Da Nang gains positive results from "Smart City" project
The People’s Committee of Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on July 24 held a working session with Fujitsu Limited of Japan on a project on providing technical support for the locality, aiming to build a smart city model through digital transformation in land management.
The project, which will be carried out between 2025 and 2028, has a total investment of about 29 million USD. Of the sum, 28.4 million USD is non-refundable aid from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the rest comes from the city’s budget.
Read more: VN: Japan to sponsor over 28 million USD for Can Tho city's smart city project
Vietnamese Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra and the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min agreed to strengthen cooperation in public administration between the two agencies during their working session in Seoul on July 15.
Between now and the year’s end, both sides plan to hold a seminar on government innovation in response to global challenges. The RoK will increase information sharing to assist Vietnam in administrative reform, state governance, and restructuring of local authorities.
Read more: Vietnam and Republic of Korea commit to stronger public administration cooperation
A team of business people and state officials from South Korea visited Vietnam last week to discuss large-scale projects such as urban development and high-speed rail.
South Korea hopes to tap into Vietnam’s extensive urbanisation and infrastructure plans, Business Korea reports.
South Korean infrastructure minister Park Sang-woo met Vietnam’s minister of construction Nguyen Thanh Nghi in Hanoi to discuss the Dong Nam New Town in Bac Ninh Province, northern Vietnam.
Read more: VN: Korean team visits Vietnam to pitch for smart city and railway work
Patients and their doctors can now access their digital health records from a single platform.
A platform for creating, viewing, and sharing electronic health records has been rolled out in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
On 28 June, the city rolled out its EHR platform. According to a state media report, the platform enables relevant authorities, including doctors to access the health information of individual patients, who also have the right to opt in or out of sharing their records.