Hanoi(WNAM Monitoring): Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 23 proposed breakthrough orientations to make ASEAN a model in digital transformation globally, while co-chairing a business roundtable with his Lao counterpart Sonexay Siphandone in Hanoi.
Chinh stressed the importance of equal access to digital transformation and digital economy on the principle of “harmonising benefits and sharing risks”; ensuring transparency, safety, inclusiveness, and sustainability; strongly promoting ASEAN’s self-reliance and autonomy in digital transformation, based on specific factors, potential and advantages of each country; and soon completing the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement.
He suggested promoting a global, all-people, and comprehensive approach in ASEAN’s digital economic development; and focusing on solving common and global problems that affect the entire population such as pressure on labour restructuring, cybersecurity, cybercrime, and the downside of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Vietnamese leader also urged countries, partners, and the ASEAN business community to strengthen cooperation in digital transformation to contribute to renewing traditional growth drivers, and promoting digitalisation associated with the application of science and technology in industries and fields to create new growth engines.
It is also necessary for the parties to intensify cooperation and support in financial resources, knowledge, technology transfer, and human resources training so that ASEAN and Vietnam can participate more deeply in frameworks, mechanisms, and supply chains in the region and the world, added Chinh.
He told participants that Vietnam determines national digital transformation and digital economic development on the basis of science, technology and innovation as a strategic development orientation by 2030, with a consistent viewpoint of putting people and businesses at the centre, and considering them as subjects, targets, driving forces, and important resources of digital transformation.
