[Vnbiz] ICT Stats in Vietnam Internet
Ziusha T.A.
ziusha at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 03:28:41 PST 2006
Thanks Craig for this quote. May I suggest Mr. Thang used info from
eCommerce Report 2005 (available at www.mot.gov.vn ). Collecting info, esp.
in eCommerce is really hardest nut! Well, hopefully the ongoing
cooperationship between eCommerce Department (Ministry of Trade) and
relevant authority of GSO will bring more fruits.
In fact, the eCommerce Report 2006 will be released soon (in both languages,
English will be later). I'll keep you posted.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Ziu
On 12/30/06, Craig Stevenson <cstevenson2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> *Some issues when start to collect ICT indicators in Vietnam*
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> Geneva 8-10 September 2003
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> Nguyen Duc Thang
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> General Statistics Office of *Vietnam*
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> *Introduction*
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> - Current situation of *e-commerce* development in *Vietnam*.
> - At the present, *e-commerce* has been applied in various
> forms.
> - The initiative of *e-commerce* in *Vietnam* has just been
> embarked, at the first step.
> - In general, *e-commerce* in *Vietnam* has not yet been applied
> broadly and fully and GSO has some difficulties when start collecting ICT
> indicators as follow:
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> *A. Subjective causes*
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> - Framework of organization of GSO
> - Up to now, GSO has not got a section, which responsible for
> collecting and processing ICT indicators.
> - GSO has submitted an Odirnance on a change of framework of
> organization to Primer Minister.
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> *Subjective causes (continuous)*
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> - Lacking of the document concerning to methodology
> - Building up the ICT indicators system.
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> *Subjective causes **(continuous)*
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> - Lacking of computers for statistical staff on some
> provinces/cities.
> - Up to now, we have got about 50 percent of 61 Provincial
> Statistics Offices which in common use local area network (LAN).
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> *B. Objective causes*
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> - Some problems are not only impact to applying, developing *
> e-commerce* but also to collecting ICT indicators in Vietnamas
> follow:
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> *1. Awareness of the people on e-commerce*
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> - Today, the majority of Vietnamese, have not yet had a complete
> awareness on *e-commerce*.
> - The proportion of internet subscribers (compared to the
> population) is much less than that in the regional countries.
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> *Awareness of the people on e-commerce* (continuos)
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> - The reasons are low skill of using information technology
> applicants and knowledge of English, low income affects to the ones' demand
> or lack of security when taking part in * e-commerce*
> - Working manner and in general and purchasing habit in particular,
> are still under traditional* *form
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> *2. Human resources for e-commerce*
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> - The informative workforce of *Vietnam* has not yet satisfied the
> demand on the domestic software market.
> - The majority of employee and people have not yet had sufficient
> skills to work and do business on the internet and with other modern
> equipment.
> - Weakness in English, the principle language on the internet, is
> also an obstacle to actively doing *e-commerce**.*
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> *3. Information and communication technology infrastructure*
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> - The information and communication network of *Vietnam* has not
> yet satisfied the demand for quickly having access to the internet of
> consumers and businesses.
> - Internet access cost is rather high compared to income of
> the majority of people.
> - The quality of telecommunication services, especially the
> quality of internet services, also influences the implement and development
> of * e-commerce*.
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> *3. Information and communication technology infrastructure *(continuos)
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> - Hardware equipment mainly is imported.
> - Some of 100% foreign-invested enterprises manufactured and
> exported printing circuits for information equipment, however the imported
> materials reached to 90%.
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> *4. Legislation infrastructure*
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> - *Vietnam* has not yet issued any legal texts stipulating in
> detail about *e-commerce* . This is a big barrier to the
> development of *e-commerce* in *Vietnam*.
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> - The Ordinance on *E-commerce* is under drafting process.
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> *5. Electronic payment*
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> - Electronic payment system of *Vietnam* commercial banks has not
> yet developed sufficiently to satisfy requirements of *e-commerce
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> - Legal texts related to tax, accounting and statistics management
> didn't accept invoices in electronic form of enterprises.
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> *6. Electronic payment *(continuos)
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> - *Vietnam* commercial banks have not yet focussed on investment in
> research and development of electronic banking system
> - The usage of credit cards, payment cards, smart cards is
> limited to a narrow sphere, is now being experimented and has not yet become
> overall measures with respect to each bank*.*
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> *7. Consumer protection*
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> - Recent years *Vietnam* has had many efforts in drafting and
> approving legal texts related to consumer protection. However, due to the
> context that *e-commerce* has not yet taken shape in *Vietnam*, all
> the above legal texts didn't reflect protection of consumer rights in
> *e-commerce*.
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> *8. Information security
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> - At present, security technology applied in commerce has not yet
> developed in *Vietnam*.
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> - To encourage people to participate in *e-commerce* activities, *
> Vietnam* should quickly resolve the problems related to information
> security for *e-commerce*.
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> *Some ICT indicators are collected in co-ordination with other census by
> GSO*
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> - The Agriculture, Forest and Aquiculture census 2001, the
> Establishment Census 2002.
> - Result of some indicators as follow:
> - Number of Establishments: 2,9 million, of which:
> - Enterprises 2.2 %
> - Branch of enterprises 1.7%
> - Business household: 90.2%
> - Administrative Unit: 5.9%
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> *Result of some indicators (continuous)*
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> - Rate of employee use computer compare to total: 7.84%
> - Rate of establishment using computer: 3.1%
> - Rate of establishment have access to the Internet: 0.76%
> - Rate of establishment have Website: 0.09%
> - Rate of establishment have used *e-commerce*: 0.14%
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> *C. Recommendation of GSO to the International Organization for support
> and assistance*
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> - Expert for consulting of building up the ICT indicators system.
> - Financial supports for organizing workshops, seminar and training
> on collecting ICT indicators.
> - Equipment supports for statistical staff.
> - Financial supports for organizing a pilot survey on collecting ICT
> indicators.
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