VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Post and Telematics (MPT) has issued an instruction, “Strategic Orientations for the Development of Information and Communication Industry (ICT) of Vietnam in 2011-2020”, which is called the “Taking-off strategy”.

In the instruction, the MPT says: “After 20 years of renovation, the post and telecommunications sector of Vietnam has made comprehensive and outstanding progress, quickly narrowing the gap of development with countries in the region and the world.”

At present, 100% of communes in Vietnam have access to telephone services. The number of Internet users accounts for 20% of the population. The hardware industry gains an average annual growth rate of 20-30% and that is 30-40% for the software and IT service industry.

However, the above achievements are not equal to the potentials and the “Taking-off strategy” aims to step up the development of the ICT industry in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s goal is bringing its ICT industry to an advanced level compared to ASEAN countries while post and telecommunications infrastructure reach the average of developed countries. In the future, ICT and the Internet will be applied widely and deeply in all fields of economics, culture, and politics.

Other goals include: ICT to become a key economic sector; some major products in the hardware and software industry to reach the level of developed countries; human resources in the field of ICT to reach the level of leading ASEAN countries in terms of quantity, standards and quality.

To achieve these goals, popularising IT among the people and ICT training are important tasks. Vietnam will also perfect its laws and policies to facilitate the development of ICT.

The Institute for Post and Telecommunications will develop the “Taking off strategy” and related policies to concretise this instruction.

(Source: TBKTVN)