Affirm the right direction

Binh Duong has been implementing the ambitious Binh Duong Smart City project since 2016 and has always adhered to the concept of economic transformation towards innovation and digitalization. Supported and inspired by the ICF Smart Community of the Year 2011 - Brainport Eindhoven (Netherlands), with the efforts and support from Becamex IDC Corporation, Binh Duong has embarked on an impressive journey of socio-economic development, thoroughly applying digital transformation and innovation in specific projects, aiming to build and develop Binh Duong to become "smarter", better and more livable.

ICF honors Top 7 Smart Communities in the world in 2023.

Up to now, a digital and innovative ecosystem is being strongly developed in Binh Duong, such as: Smart Operations Center, EIU Campus with Becamex Business Incubator, Fablab, Advanced Manufacturing Center, World Trade Center WTC... are bringing a better life to the Binh Duong community. Moreover, Becamex IDC Corporation and Binh Duong province have been implementing strategic development programs, in line with the goal of more sustainable development such as promoting the use of clean energy, renewable energy, promoting the application of technology in production, developing industry 4.0... creating a greener, cleaner living environment. Thereby, creating the premise for attracting technology enterprises, attracting high-quality human resources, preparing to strongly spread the model of building and developing the province's socio-economy.

On the morning of June 21, 2023, Binh Duong reached a remarkable milestone when for the third consecutive time, ICF officially honored it as one of the Top 7 Smart Communities in the world, along with cities from countries such as Canada, Brazil, Australia, etc. ICF conducted research and evaluated the profiles of 21 Smart Communities that achieved the title of Smart 21 in February 2023 to select 7 communities with the best development strategies, and honored them at the ICF Top 7 Honor Conference 2023 held in Durham, Canada with the theme: "Building a strong region from community diversity".

Binh Duong New City Center today.

ICF is a forum of more than 200 prosperous smart cities in the world. ICF collects information and data on specific projects in the process of building and developing smart cities of communities around the world, conducts research and evaluates hundreds of cities around the world to select the Top 21 (Smart 21) with smart city development strategies, then selects the Top 7 and finally evaluates the Top 1 Smart Community of the year. ICF is based on a set of 6 criteria including: Connectivity - Broadband, workforce, innovation, digital equality, support and encouragement, and sustainability.

Unlike previous years, in 2023, ICF has renewed the Smart 21 and Top 7 registration questions, focusing deeply and strongly on strategic orientations for sustainable development and innovation, with deeper and broader applications of technology - digital, in the spirit of taking the community as the center, taking smart connectivity as the development motto. With the Covid-19 epidemic situation under control globally, ICF will evaluate the Top 7 communities by visiting and interviewing directly. The Top 1 Smart Community in the world will be announced in October 2023 in the United States.

Flexible model conversion

From the foundation of industrialization development after more than a quarter of a century of re-establishment of the province, Binh Duong has implemented a smart city project to welcome the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and has achieved many successes. In 2023, along with the constant transformation of the world, Binh Duong is also in the process of building and approving a new phase of smart city development strategy, with development orientations in line with the new master plan of the whole province. The challenge is not small, but the irreversible trend of digital transformation, automation and higher self-driving also brings great opportunities for the fields of AI, IoT, Big Data to be applied in the fields of smart city infrastructure and smart industrial infrastructure.

Becamex IDC's Smart Operations Center.

Becamex IDC was assigned by Binh Duong province to be the unit to connect, set up projects and coordinate with localities and departments to implement the construction of Binh Duong Smart City. Becamex IDC is building an innovative ecosystem and is also a leading unit in the construction and development of industrial park infrastructure today. Recently, Becamex IDC has assigned its member unit VNTT to deploy technological solutions to apply digital transformation and develop Binh Duong Smart City.

To meet the increasing demands of the Provincial Party Committee and the People's Committee of Binh Duong province, Becamex has been developing a new type of ecosystem, supplementing the industrial - urban - service model, which is the innovation and science and technology ecosystem, building smart industrial parks, green and sustainable smart cities. Thereby, moving towards building industrial parks associated with science and technology to attract industries with high added value, contributing to bringing Binh Duong industry to a higher segment in the global value chain, gradually building a driving force for the development of a knowledge-based economy and a digital economy to replace the economic driving force of labor-intensive and land-intensive.

Binh Duong believes that this new strategy will promote Binh Duong's development to a new level, bringing prosperity and security to Binh Duong people as well as economic success and international recognition.

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