VietNamNet Newspaper would like to introduce to readers some contents summarized and oriented by Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung at the conference to review the information and communications work in the first 6 months of the year and deploy tasks for the last 6 months of 2024, on July 29.
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Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung shared at the conference to review the information and communications work in the first 6 months of the year and deploy tasks for the last 6 months of 2024. Photo: Le Anh Dung.

About Vietnam's digital infrastructure. Vietnam's digital infrastructure includes: 1- Telecommunication and Internet infrastructure, 2- Data infrastructure, 3- Physical-digital infrastructure, 4- Digital transformation infrastructure. To develop the digital economy, there must be digital infrastructure. Infrastructure must have the physical facilities of that infrastructure and must provide essential services, supporting socio-economic activities. Infrastructure is the foundation for development. The foundation must be sufficient and must be universal.

Vietnam's digital infrastructure includes: 1- Telecommunication infrastructure (optical cable, transmission, broadcasting station, ...), Internet infrastructure (Router, DNS, ...), 2- Data infrastructure (IDC, Cloud, ...), 3- Physical-digital infrastructure (digitizing everything in the real world, simulating it, creating 1-1 mapping and creating interaction between the real world and the digital world (IoT to digitize everything, IoT transmission, data simulating everything (the physical world has a bridge, in the digital world there is data due to digitizing the bridge and software simulating that bridge based on digitized data), storage and processing, especially processing big data and AI), 4- Digital Infrastructure (Digital Utilities: digital ID, digital signature, digital payment, digital invoice, digital contract authentication, digital document).

Telecommunication infrastructure, Internet, data infrastructure are hard infrastructure, physical infrastructure. Physical-digital infrastructure includes sensors, IoT, transmission, storage, data processing are hard, but the data itself from digitized things and software that simulates things is the main part of this infrastructure, which is soft. So this infrastructure is both hard and soft. The infrastructure of Digital Utilities serving the digital transformation is completely soft (software platforms). So, digital infrastructure includes both hard and soft infrastructure. The layers of digital infrastructure have hard, soft, and both hard and soft.

Digital transformation means people have more space to live and work, and human wealth and creative space will at least double. Minister Nguyen Manh Hung

The biggest task of Digital Transformation is to digitize everything in the real world, simulate it, create a 1-1 mapping and create interaction between the real world and the digital world. People have one more space to live, work, human wealth and creative space increase at least twice. There are many things that can be done in the digital environment faster, more comprehensively and more effectively than in the real world. But there must be tools to do those things, or support the doing of those things - Digital Utilities). In cyberspace (CGM), there is also infrastructure like in the real world. Infrastructure in CGM is Digital Utilities.