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Hanoi Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung: the capital city is making effort to become a smart city
Nguyen Tung - Bao Ngan 12:04, 2017/08/01
Addressing the thematic discussion titled “Digital economy: policy execution to catch up with IR 4.0” on July 31st, the Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said smart city is the target for all major cities in the world and in Vietnam and it is also the target for Hanoi.
According to the Hanoi chairman, the smart city will help cut the government apparatus personnel and save cost for enterprises. Hanoi city has determined that IT solutions play the key role in the effective management and administrative reform.  The city has also identified digital economy as the platform to develop the startups ecosytem of Hanoi in the future.
 
The Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung gave a speech at the Private Sector Forum.
The Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung gave a speech at the Private Sector Forum.
 Since 2016, Hanoi city has formulated plans to apply smart city and include them  in the municipal party’s resolution. The Hanoi People’s Committee is assigned with working out implementation plans.
 
The capital city has phased out 170 softwares and servers developed independently by the districts, agencies and public enterprises since 2015 to establish a shared network for the whole city. The network is applied consistently in all 584 communes and wards and 30 districts. The city has hired bandwith and servers, placed orders to private enterprises to write softwares.

So far, Hanoi has built a shared portal and database of 7.5 million people with 32 information categories.  In the coming time, Hanoi will  continue updating core database of 230,000 enterprises and 300,000 household business.  
 
On the other hand, Hanoi also focuses on building database on land with 2.7 million land slot, which  is expected to be completed in October 2018.  Also, the city is developing smart apps such as Iparking to help users find parking slot. Currently, Hanoi is the 9th city in the world applying this technology which is ordered by the city to a group of Vietnamese students  abroad.
 
With drastic action over the last year, over 98% of custom clearance activities and 70% applications  for business registration has been completed online. The city has set up the  objective of having 100% of applications for business registration and 100% tax declaration to be carried out  online by the end of 2017.
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