An annual meeting on the occasion of the Lunar New Year was held by 19 professional associations and clubs in the ICT industry in mid-February. 2023 was determined as the year of Vietnam’s digital data and the 19 ICT organizations chose the theme "Focusing on building national databases" for the event.

Hung said at the event that the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) would take the leading role in the national data year. The plan for the national data year will be released by the Prime Minister and Chair of the National Committee on Digital Transformation in the first quarter.

“Associations and enterprises need to take initiative in creating action plans with the focus on initiatives in data that create value from data,” Hung said.

The Minister said he hopes that in the new year Vietnam’s ICT community will find new resources and a new approach to turn difficult issues into reality, turn data into land, and cultivate data to create value.

Affirming that MIC this year will launch a campaign to support digital technology firms doing business overseas or planning to go abroad, Hung suggested new approaches – creating high-quality products and services with low costs; using the latest technologies to solve small questions; solving old questions with the most advanced technologies; popularizing products and services with high technologies, low prices and ease of use, so as to bring hi-tech products to everyone.

Big tech firms are developing products targeting large markets with billions of users, such as ChatGPT.

“If we use AI to create chatbots in specific fields, when data that need processing is just one millionth of ChatGPT’s data, our chatbots will be more excellent and become experts in the fields. This is the approach which allows to personalize products, which fits our current capability,” he said. 

There’s an extremely large market – using latest and most modern technologies to solve small questions. The questions are small but can bring high values. This is the opportunity for Vietnam’s digital technology firms.

“Whatever Vietnam does, it should go the Vietnamese way, based on the characteristics and core strength of Vietnam, so that no one can imitate Vietnam," Hung said.

Van Anh