In this unprecedented transformation, digital technology, digital transformation and media have played a particularly important role. Information and communication industry has never had such a great mission today. This is also a rare opportunity for the ICT industry to reposition itself.

That is the judgment of the head of the Information and Communication Industry - Minister Nguyen Manh Hung at the 2020 Summary Conference and the implementation of the 2021 mission of the Ministry of Information and Communications held in the morning of January 12, 2021 in Hanoi.

Postage - a platform to help businesses and people access national and global markets

The Minister said that if the postage is mail delivery and parcel, the postage will still be postage.

However if postage is to guarantee the physical flow in addition to the flow of data, if postage is the platform to support every individual, every household can do business, access to the national and the whole market, postage is the foundation to help people business rich and escape poverty. And so, the post's living space, the new mission of post is extremely great.Viễn thông với sứ mệnh mới - hạ tầng SXKD của nền kinh tế số

The head of the information and communication industry said that if telecommunications continues to be the communication infrastructure, then telecommunications will still be telecommunications.

However if telecommunications is the infrastructure of the digital economy, the infrastructure of data storage and processing, the infrastructure that provides technology like a service to people, every business to help them create products. Telecommunication has become the production and business infrastructure (business and production) of the digital economy. A new space, a new mission of telecommunications has been gradually taking shape.

Digital transformation - a breakthrough development of IT applications

If the IT application continues to be the automation of old operations, it will remain the IT application. However if the application of IT is to use digital technology to transform digitally, to change the operational model, IT is really a revolution helping humanity move from the real world to the digital world, Minister of Information and Communications said.

New challenges, new opportunities will create new missions, new spaces. New missions, new spaces will create new energy, new approaches, and this will be a resource for us to break through.

From new perceptions and new visions, the units in the information and communication industry will have to concretize them into action programs. Directive 01 year 2021 of the Minister of Information and Communications specifies the things that the Information and Communications industry must do. With the spirit of aspiration to prosperity, great mission, high goals, new approaches, breakthrough solutions, 5 years of work in 1 year, this is the way, the way to develop our country fast and sustainable, the Minister believes.