Building and operating an online cooperative product market

DNO - On the afternoon of December 13, the Institute of Science, Technology and Environment under the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance in coordination with the Da Nang City Cooperative Alliance organized a conference to deploy solutions to support cooperatives and members in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to apply information technology and digital transformation in production and product consumption activities in the Central region, including building and operating online cooperative product markets.

Representatives of the Cooperative Alliance of provinces and cities in the Central region and leaders of cooperatives in the city attended the conference.

View of the conference on implementing solutions to support cooperatives and members in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to apply information technology and digital transformation in production and product consumption activities. Photo: HOANG HIEP

Chairman of the Da Nang City Cooperative Union Pham Cong Chinh said that currently, the Central region has 6,510 cooperatives and cooperative unions in operation, of which 349 are newly established. This shows that the collective economy and cooperatives are still the preferred economic models, in line with the current development trend in our country.

Cooperatives and cooperative unions have made important contributions to the production of a large volume of goods, bringing positive values both economically and socially.

However, apart from a few cooperatives with large scale, stable production and consumption of goods, brand names, and positions in the market, the majority of cooperatives are still very confused in export and business activities and have difficulties in solving product output and consumption.

These shortcomings and limitations stem from many causes, including the fact that cooperatives have not kept up with the development requirements of society, are slow in applying information technology and digital transformation to support production, and promote the consumption of products and goods of the collective economic sector and cooperatives.

This is even more difficult and challenging for cooperatives in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Therefore, there is a need for practical and effective tasks and solutions, especially building and operating an online cooperative product market. This is a solution to promote the application of information technology and digital transformation in the collective economic sector, cooperatives in general and support for members of ethnic minority and mountainous areas in particular, in order to successfully implement the strategy of building a digital economy and smart society...

Director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Environment (Vietnam Cooperative Alliance) Le Tuan An acknowledged that implementing solutions to support the effective development of collective and cooperative economies will basically solve existing problems in household economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

This is also the basis for motivating and encouraging cooperative members, ethnic minorities and mountainous people to participate in economic development, improve income and living conditions.

The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance is being assigned to implement the content of supporting the construction and maintenance of online product markets in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2023-2025, including two main parts: building online product markets and maintaining online product markets.

Based on the direction of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance, the Institute of Science, Technology and Environment is surveying the level of digital transformation and proposing solutions to build an online product market; developing documents and organizing training to improve skills in applying information technology for digital transformation, improving e-commerce operation capacity for cooperative members and ethnic minorities and mountainous areas;

In addition, build an electronic information page to propagate and disseminate legaleducation for cooperative members and ethnic minorities and mountainous areas; build a number of information technology applications to serve professional activities of project contents; information and communication about the program and online product market; organize the operation and support the maintenance of the online product market...

HOANG HIEP

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