The statement was made by the International Telecommunication Union at an international telecommunications conference held by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on May 19 in Hà Nội.

PM Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has ordered the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to complete, by the end of this month, the draft Project on converting Việt Nam into an ICT power by 2020.

The Corporation of Financing and Promoting Technology, which is more popularly know as FPT Group, on May 25 introduced the FPT Technology Research Institute, aiming to lure Vietnamese talent.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIT) is urgently finalizing the White Book on Information Technology 2010 to provide official data about Vietnam’s information and communication industry (ICT).

The nation's five-year plan to change the IT industry from being assemblers to producing their own core products would not be an easy task, domestic information technology specialists say.

As many as 200 scientists from around the world gathered at the 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, which opened in the central city of Hue on March 24.