With the topic "Science, technology and innovation - Arousing aspirations, creating the future", the purpose of celebrating Vietnam S&T Day 2021 is to celebrate and honor scientists and S&T staffs; propagating and disseminating S&T achievements, innovation results, enhancing the role and position of S&T.

The ePing global trade alert system will help businesses receive timely information when there are changes in technical barriers to trade (TBT) or sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS). The Vietnamese version of this system was released at the end of April.

Viettel's high-performance computing system reaches 20 PetaFlops (20 million billion calculations per second), "allowing Viettel to unleash its creativity, attract leading experts in AI, ready to take on the big tasks of the country about AI."

As of April 2021, 54/63 provinces/cities have carried out activities to implement the Prime Minister's Decision 100 QD-TTg (Project 100) approving the "Project on implementing, applying and managing traceability system.”

The Global Barcode Organization (GS1) General Assembly 2021 has just taken place in an online form. Accordingly, the Global GS1 Organization aims to transition from one-dimensional (1D) barcodes to two-dimensional (2D) barcodes starting in 2027.

The Ministry of Information and Communications proposed relevant agencies and units to direct domestic enterprises to produce electronic bracelets with socialization funds.

The Covid-19 epidemic has significantly changed consumer demand and market share in the fashion industry, digital transformation is the solution to help Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises develop value chains and gain an dominance in the competition.

On May 27, the E-commerce Development Center (ECOMVIET) - Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy (Ministry of Industry and Trade) accompanied the Central Vietnam Student Union (VYU) and the Center Support & Development of Vietnamese Students (VSDS) to organize a symposium: "Outstanding your own qualities, conquering your dream job" in an online form.

Many businesses have really considered digital transformation as an inevitable process to bring about higher operational efficiency, professionalism and increase labor productivity, as well as build a solid foothold for long-term development of the enterprise.

Vietnam has many policies to promote development of digital transformation, but still lacks specific programs and actions to create specific examples. That is shared by Dr. Le Dang Doanh – Former Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management with a reporter from Industry and Trade Newspaper recently.