Announcing the 10 most prominent information technology events in 2022

(Photo: Minh Son/Vietnam+)

On December 25, the Vietnam Information Technology Journalists Club (ICT Press Club) held a ceremony to announce 10 typical ICT events in 2022.

The Vietnamese ICT landscape in 2022 is witnessing a strong movement towards digital transformation. The phrase "digital transformation" appears frequently and continuously in all areas of socio-economic life.

To demonstrate determination and raise awareness among people across society about the role, significance and benefits of digital transformation, the Prime Minister has designated October 10 every year as National Digital Transformation Day.

Not stopping there, in 2022, the Prime Minister issued a Directive on developing e-Government towards digital Government, promoting national digital transformation. To continue developing e-Government towards digital Government, promoting national digital transformation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at National Digital Transformation Day 2022. (Photo: Minh Son/Vietnam+)

In addition, the Prime Minister also issued the National Strategy on Digital Economy and Digital Society Development to 2025, with a vision to 2030.

This strategy has a vision of digital development with growth based on digital technology and digital data as inputs, becoming one of the new key development methods for Vietnam to develop rapidly, sustainably, inclusively, adaptively and resiliently in the face of challenges in an unpredictable and volatile world.

If in previous years, the main color of Vietnam's ICT picture was the telecommunications sector with strong double-digit growth, in 2022, the traditional telecommunications sector continued to decline. Statistics from the Ministry of Information and Communications show that the growth rate of the telecommunications sector only reached 1.6%, which is quite a modest number.

In 2022, some carriers have begun to shut down 2G and 3G in some areas with low demand. The Ministry of Information and Communications has set a target of completing the shutdown of 2G technology by September 2024 at the latest.

The picture of Vietnam's telecommunications in 2022 cannot be ignored without mentioning the problem of spam calls and fraudulent calls attacking customers. In response to this problem, the Ministry of Information and Communications has requested network operators to implement a plan to prevent and handle spam calls and a plan to manage mobile subscriber information, prevent and handle SIMs showing signs of channel availability.

One of the highlights of telecommunications in 2022 is that the National Assembly passed the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Radio Frequencies to strictly manage, reasonably and effectively allocate the right to use radio frequencies, create a healthy competitive environment in telecommunications activities, promote the development of telecommunications infrastructure, contribute to creating a national digital transformation platform, and gradually develop the digital economy and digital society.

This revised law has completed and synchronized regulations from establishing and promulgating frequency planning to granting frequency licenses for better and more effective management and use, especially with "rare" frequency bands.

Samsung's new R&D center in Hanoi. (Photo: Minh Son/Vietnam+)

In 2022, in the midst of the global chip crisis, Vietnam is considered a bright spot when two enterprises, FPT and Viettel, both announced chip production. FPT Semiconductor - a microchip design and manufacturing company (belonging to FPT Group) has launched the first microchip line applied in IoT products for the medical field, realizing the dream of producing semiconductor components initiated by Vietnamese intelligence.

2022 also witnessed the official inauguration and operation of Samsung Vietnam's Research and Development (R&D) Center in Hanoi. The shift of large corporations in the world to move their factories to Vietnam has brought Vietnam's position to a new level on the world technology map.

According to VNA