First-ever Vietnam Digital Awards held in Hanoi

Trung Kien

Nov 21, 2018 / 06:40 AM

Vietnam Digital Awards will encourage enterprises in all fields to invest in and apply digital technologies.

The first-ever Vietnam Digital Awards was organized by the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) under Ministry of Information and Communications at a ceremony in Hanoi on November 19, honoring excellent digital products and services.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong is making speech at the ceremony. Photo: petrotimes.vn

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong, who also chairs the VDCA, said the awards will be granted annually to honor organizations and individuals excelling in providing or applying digital technologies aimed to improve customers’ experience.

Hong also believes that in the coming years, Vietnam Digital Awards will continue to honor and introduce prominent digital products and services to domestic and foreign customers.

The deputy minister hopes that the Vietnam Digital Awards will encourage enterprises in all fields to invest in and apply digital technologies.

He congratulated units and enterprises honored at the Vietnam Digital Awards 2018. Among the 34 winners, 16 are typical digital products and services aiming at solving social issues, while the rest are outstanding companies and individuals with strong digital transformation in their activities.

The award-winning products and services include the Vi Viet digital banking service of LienVietPostBank, the QR Merchant Management System of the Vietnam Payment Solution JSC, the Yolo digital banking service of VPBank, the VTVgo internet TV apps of the Vietnam Television, and the FastGo.mobi ride-hailing app of the FastGo Vietnam Co. Ltd.

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