HCM City’s Department of Health has sped up the process of building a database and adopting IT as instructed by the city Party Committee.

Vietnam is co-operating with Singapore in innovation, smart cities, and e-government development to build out a facilitating economy.

Vietnam’s aspirations to advance smart technology will help develop the largest municipalities into smart cities in a decade, with the Asian Silicon Valley of Taiwan ready to assist via innovative solutions.

Smarthomes first appeared in Vietnam 10 years ago, but have only become popular recently.

Hanoi should set up a connected technology system in order to build a smart city model, Deputy General Director of Gamuda Land Dennis Ng Teck Yow said on the sidelines of the Symposium on “ASEAN – Japan: Cooperation for Prosperity”.

The achievements in the first stage of a project to turn HCM City into a smart city 2020 were listed by its People’s Committee at a conference on Sunday.

Coastal city of Ha Long in the northern province Quang Ninh is angling to become a smart tourism city.

Vietnam needs to settle fundamental problems before it can think of building smart cities, experts say.

Danang is aiming to become a smart and creative city by 2045, and expects to spend over VND2.14 trillion ($93 million) on this transformation that would synchronise all processes of the central city’s operations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – City authorities are planning to use artificial intelligence (AI) to further their scheme to develop a smart city, Nguyen Thanh Phong, chairman of HCM City People’s Committee, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will start projects to become a smart city by 2025 early next year.

VietNamNet Bridge - The industry to manufacture devices for the future HCMC smart city has been taking shape over the last 12 months.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Quang Thanh, director of the Da Nang Department of Information and Communication, talks to Nhân dân (People) newspaper on Da Nang’s plan to transform into a smart city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s administrative reforms are delivering results and there will be more of the same, city authorities have said.

Four investors from Vietnam and Japan have asked for Hanoi authorities’ permission to develop a smart city capitalized at $4 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam targets building at least three smart cities in 2017-2020. But to reach that goal, it needs to have better infrastructure, more money and a more qualified workforce.

As the number of IoT devices increases, low-power chips manufactured with SOTB technology (Silicon on Thin BOX) will become a key to IC (integrated circuit) industry development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has approved the integration of its three emergency numbers as one of the first steps in its makeover as a smart city.

VietNamNet Bridge - The highlight of the Vietnam real estate market in 2017 was the boom of ‘green’ construction. 

Discussing urban development programming in HCMC, economist Tran Du Lich commented that the ‘living within one’s means’ principle must not be applied to the city’s infrastructure development. If so, residents will pay a heavy price in the future.