Nordic countries offer valuable lessons for Vietnam in digital age
As adapting to the digital age, Vietnam is advised to learn the Nordic society model which focuses on both transforming into a modern pattern and maintaining social welfare.
Ambassadors and experts from four Nordic countries including Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland have offered various lessons for Vietnam to better assimilate digital transformation process in which caring for the people is the keynote. 
Ambassadors of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark at the seminar. Photo: Minh Tuan
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Caring for people
Each expert provided different aspects but their ideas form a common standard that is called the Nordic Model, an example that is typical for all parts of the world for its caring for the people – fully and literally.
MP PhD Erkki Tuomioja of Finland. Photo: Lam Pham
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The primes for this concept was that basic social rights provided by social security and public services in order to cover the population as a whole.
For what it meant to be, the Nordic Model is based on inclusion, which calls for equal treatment and does not allow the exclusion of any group, class, or individual. The all-inclusive legislation bans any sort of discrimination not only in law but also in reality.
Accordingly, women and girls get full equality by receiving good education and participation in working life. Typically, special care and attention are given to those at risks of being left out or marginalized.
As Vietnamese laws have regulated the non-discrimination of people and recently head towards a slogan that ensuring nobody is left behind, Ho Trong Hoai, director of Institute of Science Socialism under Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, admitted at the event that the Nordic Model has many things to learn about but it takes lots of consideration when applying.
Vietnam has considered it as an ideal model and learned much from it but the application must be suitable with the domestic situation and level of development, he explains.
Anna Sundström, Secretary General of Olof Palme International Center. Photo: Lam Pham
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Digitalizing
To ensure that people are equal and given good public services, each country needs to apply updated technologies and adapt to digitalization as well, some experts emphasized at the event.
Dr. Silvija Seres, mathematician and technology investor from Norway. Photo: Lam Pham
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Adam Lebech, deputy director general of the Danish Agency for Digitalization, Denmark. Photo: Lam Pham
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