October 09, 2024, Prime Minister approved the Digital Infrastructure Strategy through 2025, with an orientation towards 2030.
Digital infrastructure is the foundation for Vietnam to become a modern and smart digital nation.
Digital infrastructure of Vietnam will be advanced, modern, well-coordinated, secure, and sustainable, on par with developed countries, thereby helping Vietnam achieve upper-middle-income status by 2030 and high-income status by 2045.
As mentioned in the strategy, the objectives achieved by 2025 are as follow:
- To universalize fiber optic coverage to all households;
- To ensure 100% of provinces, centrally-run cities, hi-tech parks, centralized information technology parks, research and development centers, innovation centers, industrial parks, stations/ports/international airports have available 5G mobile services;
- To put at least 2 new international submarine fiber optic cables into operation;
- To establish data centers supporting AI applications (AI Data Centers);
- To develop new data centers that meet green standards in accordance with international benchmarks, with Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) not exceeding 1.4;
- To ensure, on average, each citizen has 01 Internet of Things (IoT) connection;
- To assign each citizen 01 digital identification;
- To enable over 50% of the adult population to have their own digital signatures or electronic signatures.
- To develop platforms offering digital technologies (IoT, AI, big data, blockchain, cybersecurity, etc.) as services, serving as soft infrastructure for economic and social development;
And by 2030, the strategy hopes:
- To provide 100% of users with optical fiber access with speeds of 1Gb/s or higher;
- To expand 5G mobile broadband coverage to 99% of the population;
- To build and ensure the capacity and readiness to pilot 6G technology;
- To deploy and put into operation at least 06 new submarine fiber optic cables, with a minimum total design capacity of 350 Tbps of submarine fiber optic cables;
- To complete and put into use at least 01 additional submarine fiber optic cable fully owned by Vietnam;
- To deploy and put into use at least 01 new international terrestrial fiber optic cable;
- To ensure the total design capacity of submarine fiber optic cables meets a minimum redundancy requirement of 1+2 (available capacity must be 03 times the actual usage);
- To develop hyperscale data centers, data centers supporting artificial intelligence (AI); edge data centers to meet domestic needs and be ready to develop regional digital hubs;
- To increase IoT connections to reach the global average, or 04 connections per citizen;
- To enable over 70% of the adult population to have their own digital signatures or electronic signatures.
In order to achieve the above objectives, the Strategy gives out tasks and solutions to improve the institutional framework; give priority to developing digital infrastructure on par with transport and energy infrastructures; mobilize resources, allocate fundings and human resources for implementation; protect network safety and security, and user rights; conduct research and development; conduct measurement, management, supervision; foster domestic and international cooperation; disseminate and build capacity for digital Infrastructure operation.