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.
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
Tags: government, ict, investment, open source, Vietnam
I don’t know if it’s ever happened to anyone, but this situation is kind of funny for me.
After signing in FastCompany with my Facebook account, I suddenly became Terry Cohen.
I’m Chip Huyen on Facebook, and I have nothing to do with Terry Cohen or Lynne d Johnson!
It’s funny, but it’s not a joke!
I don’t know whether I should distrust Facebook or FastWeb now, or maybe both!
Tags: facebook, fastCompany, Security
Now we have official venue and date confirmed for BarCamp Hanoi 2. Congrats the team!
Here is the full message from BarCamp Hanoi:
“We are really glad to announce about the official date and venue of Barcamp Hanoi 2009.
Thanks to RMIT Ho Chi Minh city for supporting for the venue of Barcamp Saigon 1, and once again RMIT Hanoi will support our Barcamp Hanoi 2009. The infratructure of RMIT Hanoi (projectors, rooms, wifi…) is really good and it can hold about 300 attendents. Details:
WHEN
8h 30′ a.m - 5h 00′ p.m, April 19th 2009
WHERE
RMIT International University Vietnam - Hanoi Campus
2/2C Van Phuc Compound - Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi
Now we have the official venue and date confirmed, please be ready to join and you can think about your session topic for sharing in Barcamp Hanoi 2009.
Thank you very much for you interest, the registration date will be announced soon.
More detail here: http://www.barcamphanoi.org”
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Thanks!
Tags: barcamp, barcamphanoi, twitter, Vietnam
Rumors of Yahoo closes its offices to escape from Vietnam were settled off when Yahoo officially announced that it would open a subsidiary company here to better serve its sales & marketing strategies in this market. The move will take place on Feb 20. Vietnamese – languages websites will still be operated by Yahoo! Southeast Asia headquartering in Singapore. For more details, click here. or:
Seems like Yahoo! is trying its best to make money out ouf its 5th largest market in the world. Some acquisitions are negotiated, significantly is between VON (Vietnam Online Network) and Yahoo! Vietnam over the destiny of Timnhanh. After “dirty content” scandal on Timnhanh servers and huge lay-off, it seems to be the best escape for Timnhanh. The price is not yet revealed, but it’s supposed to be much cheaper than unsuccesful negotiation one year ago. Looking forward to seeing Yume.vn to join Yahoo! 360 & Yahoo! 360 Plus family. (Someone from VON plz confirm that rumor).
About Yahoo! Vietnam & the market:
Today when I was walking around Hanoi Old Quarter, I ran into some “Tourist Information” kiosks. They offer information about restaurants, beauty services, banks, etc. for tourists. They are now all old and under bad maintenance. Some are turned off, some are working with crippled touch screen. As far as I know, they were installed just more than 2 years ago by Hanoi Tourism Department to serve APEC economic leaders’ conference (Please correct me if I’m wrong, and I’d like to get more information about those kiosks in other cities). Hey I was not gonna complain of public services of Vietnam, just because I found that the map used for those kiosks were powered by Diadiem.com – currently the leading mapping service provider in Vietnam. Doesn’t it prove that Diadiem is very well - connected to the government? But I haven’t seen any further partnership between Diadiem and Tourism Department.
Several days ago, Diadiem just launched its 3D map for Ho Chi Minh City. If you ever wonder why Diadiem needs more than 100 employees, here you got it.
Until now, Diadiem covers only 12 cities in Vietnam. Why instead of spending time, money & people to cover its service for all 64 cities in Vietnam first as promised, it suddenly turns to 3D mapping? The answer is monetization. 3D mapping means virtual billboards. Is Diadiem struggling for a way to make money?
As you can see, Diadiem will focus on ads for entreprises on its site.
Calling for ads
But actually with all recent activities, I don’t know where Diadiem is heading to. Its iPhone application doens’t recieve much optimistic feedbacks. 3D mapping is nice to have, but is it a “must-have” for users at the moment? I question about Diadiem’s traffic. Diadiem is a mapping service – somehow you can see it as a Google map clone, but can you show me any site that is based on Diadiem map?
Maybe Diadiem is rich, but with this rate of spending money, how long will it last?
Tags: Diadiem, monetization, Strategy
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