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Hanoi heads for smart city amid Industry 4.0: Mayor

Hanoi is one of the cities in Vietnam that are in moving to facilitate the process of smart urban development.

Hanoi is speeding up efforts to become a smart city that brings convenience, safety and friendliness to every citizen, applying key technologies of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, Hanoi People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung said at a smart city summit on September 18.

Addressing the opening ceremony, Chung said Hanoi is one of the megacities in the world in terms of area and population. Rapid urbanization and population growth have sent the city facing many challenges in terms of planning, traffic jam, security, health, education, energy, housing development, environmental pollution.

He asked for participants' advice on smart city models, planning methods, human resources training as well as digital transformation, infrastructure for digital connectivity, cybersecurity and building a startup ecosystem.
 
The Hanoi People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung delivered the opening speech
The Hanoi People's Committee Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung delivered the opening speech
The ASOCIO Smart City Summit is aimed at gathering expertise on smart strategies, solutions, planning and smart urban development based on new technology platforms, the Hanoi mayor added.

The ASOCIO Smart City Summit, themed "Creating smarter and safer cities by digital solutions", is co-organized by the Hanoi People's Committee in coordination with the Asian - Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO) and the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (VINASA).

The summit was attended by more than 600 participants, including top leaders from central agencies, Hanoi and other Vietnam’s provinces, about 70 international delegates from 20 economies worldwide.

The summit aims at sharing the vision, strategy, policy and experience on smart urban construction, promoting the development of smart cities in Vietnam and other countries in the region by applying new technologies such as Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, AR, etc.

ASOCIO’s President David Wong cited a UN report predicting that by 2050 the world would have two thirds of urban population, and Asia and Africa would witness the fastest growth. It is expected that the rate of people living in urban areas will increase from the current 53% to 64% thanks to urbanization.

Such the urbanization pace will lead to issues such as aging, overloaded infrastructure, environmental pollution, air pollution, noise pollution that affect people’s lives and business performance, David Wong said.

ASOCIO also talked about the trend of building smart cities as the mainstay of digital transformation in Asia. Therefore, it is necessary that these cities stay interconnected digitally to be smarter and jointly deal with above-mentioned problems, Wong added.

He showed backing for Hanoi’s plan to build smart city in three phases (by 2030), focusing on three core issues: health, transport, and tourism. David Wong expressed support for cities like Hanoi to turn into a smart city.
 
Jay Jenkins, head of Southeast Asia's Google Cloud Technology
Jay Jenkins, head of Southeast Asia's Google Cloud Technology
Jay Jenkins, head of Southeast Asia's Google Cloud Technology, said Hanoi is ready to become a smart city with data collected and stored by Google during the past nearly 10 years. Every day, Google Maps tracks roads and traffic of millions of dwellers in Hanoi. These data are processed at Google’s data centers and are useful to hundreds of thousands of smartphone users.

Thus, there are a lot of smart city infrastructure elements available and Hanoi can take advantage of those, said Jay Kenkins.

A smart city can take advantage of new technologies and digitization to simplify the process, bring the highest quality for people and the best environment for businesses, Kenkins added.
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