Ho Chi Minh City wins award for smart application bringing efficiency to the community

SGGPO 11/30/2023 4:00 PM

On November 30, in Hanoi , the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (VINASA) held the 4th Vietnam Smart City 2023 Award Ceremony.

The program is part of a series of activities to promote the construction and development of smart cities organized by VINASA, aiming to honor and encourage provinces, cities, real estate investors, industrial real estate, technology enterprises with solutions to help cities develop smarter, more sustainably, bringing convenience to people. At the same time, connecting supply and demand, cooperating in building suitable models to accelerate the construction and development of smart cities in Vietnam.

Giải thưởng thành phố thông minh năm 2023 đã được trao cho nhiều địa phương và doanh nghiệp

Smart City Awards 2023 have been presented to many localities and businesses

The Vietnam Smart City Award 2023 was launched on July 20, 2023. After nearly 3 months of implementation, the award received 100 nominations.

Through 3 rounds of evaluation, the Award Council with 20 leading experts in the fields of planning, architecture, technology, state management, chaired by Dr. Nguyen Quan, former Minister of Science and Technology, evaluated and selected 32 Vietnam Smart City Awards 2023, including: 7 awards for 4 urban management units; 1 award for industrial real estate and 24 awards for outstanding technology services and solutions.

Among the 2023 awards for smart cities and urban areas, Da Nang City leads in the following areas: Smart city of operation, management, infrastructure, and public services; Smart, green, clean environmental management city; Attractive city for innovative startups.

Meanwhile, the award for smart applications being deployed and applied in practice to bring efficiency to people, businesses, communities and society is given to Ho Chi Minh City with the system of collecting fees for using infrastructure, works, and public utility services in the port gate area.

To achieve this award, Ho Chi Minh City has been very receptive, listened to the opinions of businesses, and applied a smart seaport fee collection system, which not only helps to manage vehicles entering and exiting the port quickly, conveniently, and transparently, but also contributes to increasing the city's budget revenue by more than 3,500 billion VND. And more importantly, it helps 68,000 businesses doing import-export, logistics, and logistics save a lot of time in and out, and clear customs quickly.

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Representatives of provinces and cities receiving the 2023 Smart City Award

Hanoi won the award for smart management and operation city. Right in the Capital Planning for the period 2021 - 2030 and vision to 2050, Hanoi has included the phrase "Smart" in the planning. In particular, last July, Hanoi issued the Open Data Catalog. Accordingly, specialized data will be deployed and shared within state agencies and citizens and organizations in the coming time. Hanoi is also focusing on deploying digital infrastructure and Data Center to soon put into operation and use in the fourth quarter of 2023.

According to Mr. Nguyen Nhat Quang, Director of VINASA Institute of Science and Technology, the most urgent issue today is to build a unified data infrastructure - the brain of a smart city.

“In a smart city, data, information, and knowledge can and should be recorded in digital form. Thus, data capacity is the capacity to collect, store, and use information and knowledge, which determines the level of intelligence of the city. The strategy of building a unified data infrastructure will create conditions for building smart cities, developing sustainably in the long term regardless of any changes in management mechanisms, solution providers, or development indicators," said Mr. Nguyen Nhat Quang.

The Smart City Award 2023 also witnessed the development of technology solutions integrating new technology trends, especially IoT and AI. These solutions were mostly designed and developed by Vietnamese enterprises. Of the 24 digital solutions awarded the Smart City Award from 19 enterprises, there was one excellent solution voted 5 stars by the Jury for the Beca Smart City Platform of Vietnam Technology and Communications Joint Stock Company - a member of the Investment and Industrial Development Corporation - JSC (Becamex IDC).

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