“Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Product Award 2020” Launched

The Ministry of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) held a press conference to launch the “Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Product Award 2020”, part of the “Vietnam Technology Enterprise Development Forum”.

The award is designed to stimulate digital technology firms to research and create digital technology products and solve Vietnam’s problems; honor excellent digital technology products with practical values to digital government development, digital economy, digital society and digital nation; and support “Make in Vietnam” digital products to businesses and people in Vietnam at large.

Candidate products will be assessed publicly and transparently according to two criteria: Design and creativity in Vietnam and solutions to Vietnamese problems.

The award has five categories: Excellent Digital Foundation Award, Excellent Digital Product Award, Excellent Digital Solution Award, Narrow the Digital Gap Award (City - Countryside, disadvantaged, limiting the reverse side of digital technology) and Potential Digital Product Award.

Candidate companies from all economic sectors are supposed to file registration applications in accordance with Vietnamese law, have digital technology products designed and created in Vietnam, and have been applied and used to solve Vietnamese problems.

The time for submitting applications for the award is from August 20 to October 20, 2020 via makeinvietnam.mic.gov.vn.

By Thu Ha, Vietnam Business Forum