France helps emerging economies like Vietnam benefit from AI

Pháp hỗ trợ các nền kinh tế mới nổi như Việt Nam hưởng lợi từ AI - Ảnh 1. — French Minister of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Clara Chappaz (brown shirt) at the French Tech Summit Vietnam 2025 event on May 27 - Photo: French Consulate General

“We are pleased to see Vietnam and France join the alliance to build AI in a more comprehensive way, helping emerging economies also benefit from this technology,” French Minister of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Clara Chappaz told Tuoi Tre Online at the French Tech Summit Vietnam 2025 event.

According to Ms. Chappaz, developing AI in emerging economies, such as Vietnam, is one of the priorities set forth by French President Emmanuel Macron at the AI Action Summit held in France in February 2025.

The French Minister believes that AI is a technology with great transformational power and contributes a lot to improving human life. Therefore, the message that France sends is that this technology cannot be left in the hands of just a few large corporations, but there needs to be more global cooperation in developing AI.

Held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 27, the French Tech Summit Vietnam 2025 event aims to build cooperation between France and Vietnam in the field of technology and innovation, with AI being one of the main issues discussed.

The event brings together many leading individuals and organizations in the French and Vietnamese technology ecosystem, including policy makers, business leaders, investors, innovation experts and start-ups.

Ms. Chappaz commented that applications in the field of financial technology (fintech) in Vietnam have great potential, as this field is currently developing very dynamically here.

“If we combine the strengths of economic sectors with AI, there will be countless opportunities that the two countries can exploit together,” the French AI Minister emphasized.

At the event, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Dung acknowledged France as a source of inspiration and a model for developing countries like Vietnam to learn from and cooperate with, especially in the context of the increasingly intense science and technology race.

Ho Chi Minh City aims to become a "modern service-industrial city, a locomotive of the digital economy and digital society, an economic, financial, commercial, cultural,educational , scientific and technological center of Vietnam, deeply integrated internationally, with a prominent position in the Southeast Asian region" by 2030.

In that context, Mr. Nguyen Van Dung also called for sharing, support, and cooperation in experience, technology, and investment from pioneering countries such as France.

French Tech Summit Vietnam 2025 takes place right at the time of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Vietnam. This event is part of the plan to continue implementing the Joint Statement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Vietnam and France, signed in October 2024.

Accordingly, the two sides pledged to promote cooperation in the fields of high technology, innovation and digital transformation, aiming to build a stronger bilateral relationship in the digital age.

Sharing with Tuoi Tre Online , Ms. Chappaz said she is particularly concerned that the AI industry is repeating gender biases like in other technology fields, where women's participation is lower than that of men.

The French minister said that France is implementing a program called "Filles en maths" (Mathematical Girls). She said that this is a problem that must be solved at the root, and that women need to be encouraged to participate in science from a young age, and that this is the way for women to become the driving force of AI in the future.

"I think this is very important, and I believe that between France and Vietnam, we can work together on this issue," said Ms. Chappaz.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/phap-ho-tro-cac-nen-kinh-te-moi-noi-nhu-viet-nam-huong-loi-tu-ai-20250527212358238.htm