(Chinhphu.vn) – SmartCity Asia 2024 takes place from April 17-19 at Saigon Exhibition Center (SEEC), Ho Chi Minh City, attracting about 800 exhibition booths of more than 500 businesses from all over the world. Many countries with hundreds of solutions to support smart city development.
Delegates visit SmartCity Asia 2024. |
Smart cities are a common development trend in urban areas around the world and Vietnam is one of the countries pioneering that trend. The government identifies sustainable and smart urban development as a breakthrough way to enhance Vietnam’s position.
Promote public-private partnerships in smart urban development
SmartCity Asia 2024 International Forum and Exhibition of Smart Cities – SmartCity Asia 2024 is one of the prestigious events in the region with international stature for smart cities.
With the participation of many domestic and international units. The event aims to promote public-private partnerships in implementing smart city projects, thereby effectively utilizing and exploiting social resources to solve current urban challenges through digital technology platforms.
SmartCity Asia 2024 takes place from April 17-19 at Saigon Exhibition Center (SEEC), Ho Chi Minh City, attracting about 800 booths of more than 500 businesses from many countries and regions, with main topics such as: Technologies and application solutions in smart cities (smart housing, AIoT, semiconductor technology, finance – smart payment, smart buildings, lighting smart lighting, green energy, robots,…).
Accompanying the program are typical domestic technology enterprises such as: Viettel, VNPT, Mobifone, FPT… Besides, there is the active participation of booth clusters from Korea, India, Finland, China, Russia, …
Young people are experiencing the application of ICT in smart cities at an exhibition booth. |
At the exhibition, there will be a forum with main topics such as: Smart urban strategy with green and sustainable development orientation; technology solutions for smart living; AIoT applications in smart cities following green development orientation.
Along with that, at Smart City Asia 2024, trade promotion activities and business matching will be conducted in parallel between online forms and meetings with city leaders and tours of areas. New-style smart urban area of the city.
Smart urban development is an inevitable trend.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long said that the SmartCity Asia 2024 program is a prestigious event in the region on urban development and smart cities. This is a great opportunity for state management agencies, localities, experts and the business community to exchange and discuss issues and solutions to sustainable smart urban development. The program also opens up opportunities for cooperation between domestic localities in Vietnam and domestic and international businesses in urban development and smart cities.
According to Deputy Minister of Information and Communications (MIC) Pham Duc Long, it is necessary to unify the common perception that developing smart cities is to carry out digital transformation within the scope and scale of the urban area but focusing on solving problems. Major urban issues include traffic, environment, energy, waste treatment, ensuring security, urban order,… and to achieve these contents systematically, the following factors must be considered: Intelligence must be identified, calculated and included right from urban and city planning.
Localities need to identify urban information infrastructure, digital infrastructure and especially data infrastructure as an essential urban infrastructure, a foundation for smartizing technical and economic infrastructure, other socio-economic.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long requested local leaders to drastically direct the connection and sharing of data to form a shared data warehouse at the provincial level, fully gathering data from all sectors and fields. sectors and governments at all levels; Data must be regularly updated, ensuring “correct, complete, clean, live”. On that basis, clearly identify professional problems in direction and administration, develop data analysis tools to exploit the maximum value of data to serve the direction and administration of the government. rights and provide smart services and utilities for people and businesses.
Currently, the Ministry of Information and Communications is developing a draft Government Decree regulating shared databases (databases) to submit to the Government in May 2024. It focuses on clarifying shared databases including national databases, databases of ministries, branches, localities and the relationship between shared databases; Connecting and sharing data ensures that data in state agencies is managed uniformly, consistently and hierarchically. The provisions in this draft Decree will solve a number of current local problems in organizing, planning and deploying databases to serve the development of digital government and smart cities.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long said that the Ministry of Information and Communications is committed to continuing to accompany and support localities in the process of implementing digital transformation and applying ICT in smart cities so that the implementation goes deeper and brings efficiency. practical and sustainable results in the long term.
Source: tphcm.chinhphu.vn