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 MICROSOFT CEO
FIRST VISITS VIETNAM
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started his one-day
working visit to Vietnam
as the first leg of his Asia-Pacific tour (21 May 2007). During his
visit, the CEO met with the Vietnam Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung; met
representatives from the Ministry of Post and Telematics, Ministry of
Education and Training, the Vietnam Software Association (VINASA); and held
a 30-minute talk with almost 1,000 Vietnamese software developers.
The Ministry of Post and Telematics (MPT) signed a
partnership agreement with Microsoft, under which the two sides will
co-operate in four major areas to develop Vietnam’s ICT industry:
software and hardware to improve productivity; e-government
infrastructure and technical skills; narrowing the digital gap; and
support for local software entrepreneurs.
Steve Ballmer met with Mr. Truong Gia Binh, VINASA
Chairman and FPT Corporation Chairman and CEO, to discuss what Vietnam needs to do to improve its
capacity to export software skills, and what Microsoft can do to support Vietnam’s
local software industry. He also witnessed the signing ceremony between
Microsoft and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV)
on software copyrights provided by FPT - Microsoft’s partner in Vietnam.
Ballmer affirmed Microsoft’s pledge to support IT
training in Vietnam in
general and the development of software engineers at FPT University
in particular.
Read
more at: http://vietnamnews.vnagency
.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=05ECO220507
“The mobile market
in Vietnam has recorded the fastest growth in all of Asia”, commented Liz Hall, financial analyst from
UK-based ITM, at the “Mobile Vietnam 2007" conference, which kicked
off in Hanoi on 9 May. By late April, Vietnam had 33.5 million
phone users, including 24 million mobile subscribers, or 30% of
the country's population. It is predicted that about 50% of all
Vietnamese will be using mobile phones by 2010.
(Source: Vietnam News Agency 9 May)
US$80 MILLION TO DEVELOP VIETNAM'S
DIGITAL CONTENT INDUSTRY
3 May, 2007: Vietnam’s PM Nguyen Tan Dung
approved a budget of US$80 million for a program to develop Vietnam’s
digital content industry by 2010.The program aims to promote digital
content as a flagship industry for the country.
The program highlights 8 policies: Completion of the
industry’s legal environment; Market development; services and product
development; Resource mobilization and investment attraction; IT
infrastructure development; Human capital development; R&D
enhancement; and information security improvement.
(Source: VnExpress.net 5 May)
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