The ceremony for the signing of the agreement was held at a Viet Nam-Myanmar business matching session in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday.

The two sides have agreed to share their resources to implement e-government projects in Southeast Asia, and work in government-to-government (G2G) systems on the projects.

They will also exchange information, experience, technology and experts to build OEP communities in order to expand OEP functions and carry out projects of the two countries.

The agreement marks an advance in bringing Vietnamese technology into the world.

OEP has been carried out in Da Nang City, Ha Noi City and in the fourth level of public healthcare services of the Ministry of Health. The OEP 1.1 version is expected to be released at the end of 2014, with basic functions meeting the demands of authorities for managing citizens and exchanging data with other cities and ministries.

The OEP 2.0 version will be launched in 2015 with improved functions to support technologies such as cloud computing, mobility and big data.

DTT has been providing solutions for e-government and enterprise integration for enterprises and organisations in Viet Nam. Its parent firm, Hanel Limited Company, which was established in 1984, focuses on different fields including electronics, computers and telecom; real estate and financial management; and building infrastructure for hi-tech parks.

Earlier, VNPT International, a member company of the Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), inaugurated its first representative office in Yangon on Tuesday.

At the opening ceremony, member companies of VNPT signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Burmese telecom enterprises. According to the MoUs, VNPT-I will continue to cooperate with its partner, the A1 Construction Company Ltd, to implement telecom and software products and IT solutions.

VINASAT centre, under the management of VNPT's subsidiary Viet Nam Telecom International (VTI), will provide satellite bands for the Myanmar Ministry of Defence.

VNPT and the Elite Telecom Public Company Limited will also survey the market and set up a plan to establish a joint venture to provide Internet services there.

In a meeting with Viet Nam's Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son on Monday in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar President Thein Sein said that Viet Nam and Myanmar had signed an agreement to cooperate with each other in 12 fields, including telecom and IT. He added that Myanmar would focus on investing in the two above-mentioned sectors in the near future, and affirmed that the country would help Vietnamese enterprises in all fields, especially in telecom and IT, to learn about the Burmese market to enhance co-operation.

Myanmar is considered to be an emerging telecom market. At the end of 2012, only 5.4 million of its 60 million people, equivalent to nine per cent, owned mobile phones, compared to 70 per cent in Cambodia, 87 per cent in Laos and 100 per cent in Thailand. The government of Myanmar aims to increase the number of mobile phone users to 75 to 80 per cent by 2016.

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