In the first 6 months of 2024, the results of implementing the digital transformation targets and tasks of Can Tho City have achieved and exceeded 19/23 targets of the plan 2024; completed 20/95 tasks, 69 tasks are being implemented and 6 tasks have not been implemented. The leaders of Can Tho City requested the Department of Information and Communications to continue monitoring the targets and tasks assigned in the city's Digital Transformation Plan for 2024, advising the City People's Committee to urge and remind agencies, units and localities to ensure the completion of the set targets and tasks.

Implementing the local quality measurement standards work plan in 2024, on August 23, 2024, the National Committee for Standards, Metrology and Quality held a periodic online professional workshop for the third quarter on state management activities in the field of local quality measurement standards with the theme Measurement Assurance.

In the afternoon of August 25, the semi-finals, finals, ranking finals and award ceremony of the Playground for Learning about Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) under the Digital Summer program took place.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi and RMIT University have marked an important step forward in their long-term partnership with the launch of a new research collaboration program focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor technology.

In the morning of August 28, speaking at the Ceremony to honor Outstanding Scientific and Technological Intellectuals in 2024, highlighting that every victory of the Vietnamese revolution cannot be achieved without the contribution of intellectuals, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man affirmed that the Party and State always care about and place their trust in the country's intellectuals. Building a strong, comprehensive and sustainably developed intellectual team is the responsibility of the Party, the State, and the entire political and social system.

In the morning of August 26, 2024, Binh Duong Provincial Delegation led by Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Van Loi had a working session with the Ministry of Information and Communications to discuss the project to establish a concentrated Information Technology (IT) Park in Binh Duong. On behalf of the leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long and Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong welcomed and worked with the Delegation. Also attending the meeting, there were representatives of the leaders of a number of functional units under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

In the morning of August 27, at the Vietnam Innovation Hub Building, Da Nang held an important working session with a business delegation from Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. The event opened up opportunities for comprehensive cooperation between Tochigi Prefecture and localities of Vietnam, especially Da Nang City.

On August 15, 2024, at the Headquarters of the National Committee for Standards, Metrology and Quality (Committee), it took place a Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony (MoU) between the Committee and UL Solutions of the United States.

Vietnamese female students have won more than one-fifth of the STEM scholarships for women under the ASEAN-UK SAGE programme and the British Council to complete master's degrees at prestigious universities in the UK.

The 28th Ho Chi Minh City Technical Innovation Contest in 2024 is considered in six fields, aiming to find creative solutions with high applicability in life and production, contributing to socio-economic development.