Our government is taking it serious: 980 billion dong (~US$55m) will be invested to develop Vietnam software and digital content industry from now to 2012, of which VND-88.6bln (~US$5.2) is for open source, “304 billion dong will be spent on surveying and collecting information on IT industry, upgrading the state’s management ability, promoting investment and developing the industry, another 676 billion dong will be invested in 11 projects of developing electronic information gates on software and digital content industry, building the software and digital content development fund, building IT complex, and other projects.”

This Decision will take effect on May 20, 2009.

Ealier this year, in Jan, VND-38bln (~US$2.2m) was announced to be invested in building and developing Vietnam e-Government news gate.

Source:
Vietnamese:

VnEconomy

90 tỷ đồng thúc đẩy nguồn mở Việt Nam

Đầu tư 38 tỷ cho Cổng Thông tin điện tử Chính phủ
English:

VND-980bln invested in development of software and digital content industry

US$5.2 million to develop open source software

Ofcourse I’m happy I feel like our government is really taking it serious, and something big is gonna happen in Vietnam.

From April onward, residents in Ho Chi Minh can go online, visit HCMC Deparment of Transportation’s website and check for “underconstruction” map, where underconstruction places are marked in red, so that they can choose another way to avoid traffic jam. You can see the map here, it will be updated every week.
Source: TPHCM: Phát “bản đồ lô cốt” để giảm ùn tắc

A website about Thang Long Hanoi (http://thanglonghanoi.gov.vn) will be built in dedication to Thang Long Hanoi 1000 years.

They are all good news, aren’t they?

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P/S: Btw, I just found 2 very interesting documents about ICT in Vietnam and ASEAN that you might be useful for people who care about ICT in Vietnam and ASEAN

Vietnam ICT Outlook 2007

ASEAN: ICT LANDSCAPE

Tags: government, ict, investment, open source, Vietnam