Vietnam has set a target of 80% of the adult population (from 18 years old) to use smartphones by 2025 and 95% by 2030.
The goal is stated in the National Strategy on Development of the Digital Economy and Digital Society to 2025, with Orientation to 2030, signed by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on March 31.
The strategy also states that by 2025, the population from 15 years old with payment transaction accounts at banks will reach 80%. Half of the adult population has a personal digital or electronic signature; 80% of households are covered by fiber optic broadband Internet; 90% of the population has electronic health records.
By 2025, the digital economy will account for 20% of GDP; 80% of enterprises use electronic contracts; digital economy human resources reached 2%. In 2030, the corresponding figures are 30% of GDP; all businesses use electronic contracts; human resources in the digital economy reached 3%.
People use PC-Covid smartphone application. Photo: Luu Quy
According to GfK statistics, in 2021, there will be 16.8 million smartphones sold in Vietnam market. Vietnamese people are willing to spend about 292 USD (6.6 million VND) to buy a phone.
At the end of 2021, the Prime Minister approved the Program to provide public telecommunications services to 2025, which set the goal of supporting 800,000 poor and near-poor households, families with social policies and other special groups to equip themselves with investment equipment. the end of the service learning, communication. 400,000 households will be provided with tablets; Another 400,000 households are partially supported to buy smartphones.
In Ho Chi Minh City, to serve the goal of digital transformation, in early 2022, the Department of Information and Communications proposed to support smartphones for people in difficulty.
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