IT application, digital transformation in trade promotions stepped up

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has signed a decision approving a project to promote information technology (IT) application and digital transformation in trade promotion activities in the 2021-2030 period.

The project is to improve quality and efficiency in activities of the Government’s trade promotion agencies, firms, cooperatives and household businesses; and raise public awareness and capacity of IT application and digital transformation so as to promote foreign and domestic trade, contributing to the restructure of the industry-trade sector.

It strives to build a trade promotion ecosystem and a database by 2025.

All administrative procedures in the field will be available on the National Public Service Portal with 90 percent of businesses being satisfied with the process launched on the virtual platform.

The ecosystem must be built in a consistent and concerted structure in accordance with the framework of Vietnam's e-Government development strategy.