In planning to build a smart city and in implementing the “Digital transformation in Da Nang to 2025 and orientation to 2030” project, central Da Nang city has effectively deployed an application to manage and monitor ambulance journeys. The city will use a similar application for fire trucks and garbage trucks in the future.
The Ministry of Construction has sent a document to People’s Committees of cities and provinces around the country on promoting sustainable smart urban development. It must be closely linked with digital transformation and planning, and proceed step-by-step and not develop too quickly, with pilots conducted initially to ensure short-term and long-term investment efficiency.
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen has issued a Directive on promoting digital transformation and building the southern metropolis into a smart city. The directive states that the three pillars of the digital transformation program are digital government, the digital economy, and the digital society. The digital economy is to contribute 25 per cent of the city’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) by 2025.