The Ministry of Information and Communications held a State Management Conference for the first quarter of 2024 with the Departments of Information and Communications.

Information and Communication sector development situation in the first quarter of 2024

Postal:

-In the first quarter of 2024, the output of postal items is estimated to reach 505 million items , an increase of over 47% over the same period in 2023; postal service revenue is estimated to reach 11,250 billion VND, an increase of 28.57% over the same period in 2023.

Telecommunications:

As of February 2024:

- The rate of households using fiber optic cable reached 80.1%, an increase of 4.6% over the same period in 2023 (75.5%)

- The number of smartphone subscribers reached 100.7 million, an increase of 1.2% over the same period (99.5 million subscribers);

- The number of mobile broadband subscribers reached 89.78 million subscribers (equivalent to 90.27 subscribers/100 people), an increase of 6.4% over the same period (84.36 million subscribers).

National digital transformation

- Deploying Community Digital Technology Teams (CNSCĐ): 100% of provinces and cities across the country have established CNSCĐ Teams in each village, residential group, residential area, hamlet, and residential hamlet with 81,415 Teams and nearly 400,000 members , of which 55/63 provinces and cities have completed 100% to the commune level.

- From January 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024, the Ministry of Information and Communications hosted 12 training courses on digital transformation on the Mass Open Online Learning Platform MOOCS (https://onetouch.mic.gov.vn (OneTouch Platform) for 66,500 officials, civil servants, and public employees in charge of digital transformation of ministries, branches, localities, corporations, state-owned enterprises, news agencies, and newspapers nationwide.

+ Deploying a training program for 500 digital transformation experts of ministries, branches and localities on the MOOCS platform.

+ Organize training on digital transformation for nearly 172,000 members of the Community Digital Technology Group in 22/63 localities;

+ Providing 20 digital skills popularization courses for people on the MOOCS Platform, there have been nearly 24 million visits to the digital skills popularization courses.

Digital Government :

- The rate of fully qualified Online Public Services (ODS) reaches 100%.

- As of February 20, 2024:

+ Public service rate (over total administrative procedures): 81.12%;

+ Rate of full-process public services (over total public services): 48.28%;

+ The rate of online application process reached 37.19%;

50 provinces have issued policies to reduce fees and charges; 13 provinces have issued policies to reduce processing time to encourage people to use public services.

Network security:

In the first quarter of 2024 (up to the end of February 2024):

- Revenue from the network information security sector is estimated at VND 804 billion , an increase of 46.8% over the same period in 2023 (VND 548 billion).

- State budget contribution is estimated at 41 billion VND , an increase of 28.7% over the same period in 2023 (31.8 billion VND).

- Profit: 54 billion VND , up 22.72% over the same period in 2023 (44 billion VND).

- Cyber attacks were 1,812 , down 38% compared to the same period in 2023 (2,921 attacks).

Digital economy:

- Program to support small and medium enterprises in digital transformation:

+ Number of businesses accessing the Program: 1,134,884 ;

+ Number of SME businesses using the Program's platform: 302,096 businesses.

Digital society:

- Vietnam has 06 mobile applications with over 10 million users (Zalo, Zing Mp3, Bao Moi, Vi MoMo, VnEID and MB Bank); 11 applications have 5-10 million users.

+VnEID and VSSID continue to be the two national digital platforms built by state agencies to make it into this top.

+ Zalo is in the list of 200 applications with the largest number of users in the world.

Digital technology industry

- Total IT industry revenue in the first 2 months of 2024: reached about over 598 trillion VND (~ 24.4 billion USD), up 25% over the same period in 2023.

- Export value of hardware and electronic products: reached over 20.9 billion USD , up 21.8% over the same period in 2023, accounting for about 33% of the country's export value.

Press, publishing, media

- Pay TV subscribers: As of February 2024, the number of subscribers is estimated to reach 17.2 million , an increase of 3% over the same period last year.

- Pay TV revenue: As of February 2024, service revenue (including VAT) is estimated at VND 1,646 billion , up 1.86% over the same period last year.

- Results from January 1, 2024 to the end of February 2024:

+ Facebook has blocked and removed more than 1,100 posts with anti-Party and anti-State content and 111 violating accounts (92%).

+ Google has removed 1,069 violating videos and blocked access to 02 channels with anti-Party and anti-State content containing nearly 5,000 violating videos (91% rate).

- TikTok has blocked and removed 27 violating accounts (91%).

- As of February 2024, publishing sector revenue: reached 1,230 billion VND

+ Printing sector revenue: 11,333 billion VND

+Publishing sector revenue: 780 billion VND

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