The Commission of Economy and Budget (under Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council) yesterday held a meeting about the performance and progress of investment plans for smart city transformation sub-projects.

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Department of Information and Communications, Department of Science and Technology, the Vietnam National University – HCMC yesterday co-organized a training session for state officers in district level about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential implementation in the city.

Being one of the key focuses in the project ‘Transforming Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) into Smart City’, the shared digital map with its huge critical common database is now piloting in the city, predicted to provide substantial benefits to both residents and businesses here.

Established in 2014, the policy of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) to draw human resources in the field of science and technology has been long implemented, achieving certain positive results. At present, the city is accommodating a large number of scientists and scholars to teach in educational institutes as well as carrying out their own research for a smarter and more innovative HCMC.

Being the country’s economic hub, Ho Chi Minh City determines to develop smart city project to speed up its growth, said Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan at the inauguration ceremony of the city’s new socio-economic forecasting and simulation center yesterday.

Secretary of HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan, head of the steering board for the smart city project in the phase of 2017-2022 with vision till 2025, attended a conference to preliminarily review and estimate 18 month implementation of the project on June 22.

An Intelligent Operation Center (IOC) is one of the four pillars in the project of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) to transform itself into a smart city. It consists of two groups, the first of which will receive, coordinate, and monitor the image processing stage while the second is the information center to summarize and report data for the administration task. Both groups are closely linked in the infrastructure and expected to begin working at the end of this April.